AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 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
5% slightly better overall score
4404 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5577 points
6525 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4389 points
16% slightly better multitasking score
3759 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4371 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score
3630 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

186.26 points
114% significantly higher Blender score
86.99 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed
2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
15 W
200% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

378th of 1,089
400th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Ryzen 5 7430U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5980HX beats the Ryzen 5 7430U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7430U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7430U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7430U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Also, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7430U outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5980HX thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7430U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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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