AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Intel Xeon W-2133

Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Xeon W-2133 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5980HX beats the Xeon W-2133 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon W-2133 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 W-2133. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Xeon W-2133. It also has more threads than the Xeon W-2133. Our comparison shows that the Xeon W-2133 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 W-2133 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.