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

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i9-7980XE benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7980XE beats the Ryzen 7 5800X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7980XE has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5800X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-7980XE. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800X 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.

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 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.