AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i7-4980HQ

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points

3463 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

5609 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

2826 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

2712 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

62.88 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3525 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points

1.00% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1103 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

3854 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

1241 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

47 W

38% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

489th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Core i7-4980HQ comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4980HQ beats the Ryzen 5 1500X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1500X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4980HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4980HQ has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4980HQ outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1500X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.