AMD Ryzen 7 5800U vs Intel Core i9-7980XE

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 18 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
10174 points
100% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6161 points
8591 points
39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4760 points
10736 points
125% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4676 points
10962 points
134% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.86 points
376.16 points
168% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6263 points
10703 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1671 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1388 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6881 points
11124 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1741 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1428 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
18
125% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
36
125% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz
2.6 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
1000% significantly lower TDP
165 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
1152 KiB
125% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
75 MiB
368% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

340th of 1,089
84th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile
Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 5800U vs Core i9-7980XE specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800U is faster than the Core i9-7980XE. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7980XE in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-7980XE has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5800U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-7980XE has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7980XE 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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