AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Intel Core i5-11260H

Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Core i5-11260H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11260H beats the Ryzen 9 5980HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5980HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11260H. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11260H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11260H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11260H. 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.