AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Intel Xeon E5-2643 v2

Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Xeon E5-2643 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 is faster than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has slightly more cores than the Xeon E5-2643 v2. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon E5-2643 v2. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-2643 v2. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 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 E5-2643 v2 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.