AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Intel Xeon E5-1660 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 8 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

4751 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5577 points

5819 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4389 points

4397 points

0.18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4371 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

4304 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

186.26 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

132.21 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7738 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6435 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1930 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1161 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

26% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

211% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

378th of 1,089

369th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

Xeon E5 v4 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2016 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Xeon E5-1660 v4 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5980HX beats the Xeon E5-1660 v4 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1660 v4 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1660 v4. Also, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5980HX CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1660 v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.