AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Intel Xeon E5-2640 v4

Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Xeon E5-2640 v4 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5980HX performs better than the Xeon E5-2640 v4. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2640 v4 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2640 v4 has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5980HX. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640 v4. Also, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5980HX CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2640 v4 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.