AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i9-9980HK

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i9-9980HK benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600X beats the Core i9-9980HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9980HK in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-9980HK has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 1600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9980HK. The Core i9-9980HK outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 1600X has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9980HK. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.