AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i9-10980HK

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i9 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4862 points

5234 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6603 points

6654 points

0.77% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4311 points

4782 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4176 points

4670 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4965 points

9027 points

81% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.70 points

122.88 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10416 points

11641 points

11% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5.3 GHz

26% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

Identical

45 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

358th of 1,089

321st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

10th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Core i9-10980HK specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600H performs better than the Core i9-10980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10980HK in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10980HK has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 5600H has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10980HK. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 5600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.