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

Ryzen 9 4900HS vs Core i9-7980XE specs and performance

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

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7980XE has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 4900HS. Indeed, the Core i9-7980XE has 18 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 4900HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 4900HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 4900HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-7980XE. Also, the Ryzen 9 4900HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 4900HS 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 9 4900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.