AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3350GE vs Intel Core i7 X 980

Ryzen 5 PRO 3350GE vs Core i7 X 980 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7 X 980 beats the Ryzen 5 PRO 3350GE in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 PRO 3350GE in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7 X 980 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3350GE that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3350GE. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7 X 980 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3350GE. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7 X 980 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3350GE

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 PRO 3350GE has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.