AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs Intel Core i9-9980HK

Ryzen 5 3400G vs Core i9-9980HK benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-9980HK performs better than the Ryzen 5 3400G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3400G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9980HK has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3400G. Indeed, the Core i9-9980HK has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3400G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3400G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3400G has a significantly 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 3400G thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-9980HK also has significantly more 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 3400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.