AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i9-9980HK

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Core i9-9980HK specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 2600 performs better than the Core i9-9980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9980HK in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9980HK has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 2600. Indeed, the Core i9-9980HK has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 2600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-9980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-9980HK outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 2600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-9980HK. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.