AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Intel Core Ultra 7 155U

Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Core Ultra 7 155U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 155U 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 155U has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5980HX has 8 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 155U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 155U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 155U 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 Ultra 7 155U.

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.