AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X vs Intel Core i9-11980HK

Ryzen Threadripper 1920X vs Core i9-11980HK specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X beats the Core i9-11980HK in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-11980HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X has significantly more cores than the Core i9-11980HK. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11980HK. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11980HK. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-11980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-11980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11980HK outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1920X thanks to a 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 Threadripper 1920X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.