AMD Ryzen 9 4900H vs Intel Core i9-7980XE

Ryzen 9 4900H vs Core i9-7980XE benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7980XE beats the Ryzen 9 4900H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 4900H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7980XE has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 4900H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 4900H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 4900H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-7980XE. Also, the Ryzen 9 4900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 4900H 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 9 4900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.