AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Intel Core i5-10500H

Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Core i5-10500H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5980HX is faster than the Core i5-10500H. Despite this, the Core i5-10500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has slightly more cores than the Core i5-10500H. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-10500H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10500H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10500H. Also, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 5980HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.