Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Core i7-12700 benchmarks
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-12700 performs better 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 i7-12700 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. Indeed, the Core i7-12700 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5980HX. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. Both the Ryzen 9 5980HX and Core i7-12700 have the same clock speed. A Ryzen 9 5980HX CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-12700 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 5980HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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