AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Intel Core i5-1340P

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4629 points
4754 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5577 points
7453 points
33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4389 points
9% slightly better multitasking score
4013 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4371 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score
3901 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

186.26 points
59% significantly higher Blender score
116.46 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
73% significantly higher clock speed
1.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.6 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
9 MiB
125% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

389th of 1,102
380th of 1,102

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-5200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Core i5-1340P benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1340P is faster than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. 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 Core i5-1340P has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. Indeed, the Core i5-1340P has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5980HX. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1340P. Also, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-1340P has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-1340P.

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.

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