AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i9-9880H

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Core i9-9880H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500X beats the Core i9-9880H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9880H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9880H has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Indeed, the Core i9-9880H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3500X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9880H. Despite this, the Core i9-9880H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-9880H outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3500X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9880H. The Ryzen 5 3500X 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.