AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Intel Xeon E5-2637 v4

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v4 Family 4 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

4813 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5577 points

5729 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4389 points

4521 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4371 points

4429 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

186.26 points

172% significantly higher Blender score

68.37 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7738 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4183 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1930 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1122 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.5 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

29% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

200% significantly lower TDP

135 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

378th of 1,089

366th 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 February

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 E5-2637 v4 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2637 v4 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Xeon E5-2637 v4 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2637 v4. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-2637 v4 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 Xeon E5-2637 v4 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.