AMD Ryzen 5 4500U vs Intel Core i7-4980HQ

Ryzen 5 4500U vs Core i7-4980HQ benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4500U beats the Core i7-4980HQ in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4980HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 4500U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4980HQ. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4500U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4980HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4980HQ has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4980HQ has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 4500U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Ryzen 5 4500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-4980HQ CPU because of its significantly 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 4500U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.