AMD Ryzen 7 5800U vs Intel Core i9-10980HK

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 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

5087 points

5234 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6161 points

6654 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4760 points

4782 points

0.46% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4676 points

0.13% slightly better heavy workload score

4670 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.86 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

122.88 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10624 points

11641 points

9% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz

2.4 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5.3 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

200% significantly lower TDP

45 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

100% 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

340th of 1,089

321st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 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 7 5800U vs Core i9-10980HK benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800U is faster than the Core i9-10980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10980HK in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5800U. Also, the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10980HK 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 7 5800U 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 7 5800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.