AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Intel Core i7-7800X

Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Core i7-7800X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5980HX is faster than the Core i7-7800X. Despite this, the Core i7-7800X 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 i7-7800X. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-7800X. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7800X. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5980HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5980HX CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-7800X 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.