AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Intel Xeon E5-1680 v2

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 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

1% slightly better overall score

4559 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5577 points

5695 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4389 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

4175 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4371 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

4067 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

186.26 points

105% significantly higher Blender score

90.67 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7738 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4201 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1930 points

179% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

690 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

188% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

378th of 1,089

384th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Xeon E5-1680 v2 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5980HX performs better than the Xeon E5-1680 v2. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1680 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. A Ryzen 9 5980HX CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1680 v2 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.