AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i9-9980HK

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i9-9980HK comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500U is faster 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 5500U. Indeed, the Core i9-9980HK has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9980HK has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9980HK CPU because of its 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 5500U has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-9980HK has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.