AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Intel Xeon E5-2666 v3

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 10 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

4823 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5577 points

4% slightly better gaming score

5321 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4389 points

4658 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4371 points

4614 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9299 points

93% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

4806 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

186.26 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

152.03 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

2.90 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

60% significantly more L2 cache

2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

25 MiB

56% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

378th of 1,089

363rd 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 E5-2666 v3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 performs better than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5980HX that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2666 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2666 v3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 5980HX.

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.