amd ryzen 9 5900hx vs intel core i9 10980hk
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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX (Laptop) 8-cores against Intel Core i9 10980HK (Laptop) 8-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.
Review
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Key Differences
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
- Newer released 1 years later
- More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 14
Advantages of Intel Core i9 10980HK
- Newer released 2020 years later
- 10% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.1 GHz vs 4.6 GHz)
- Newer PCI Express version – 4
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
Specifications
General
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX | Intel Core i9 10980HK | |
| Vendor | AMD | Intel |
| Released | January 7 2021 | April 2 2020 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| instruction set | x86-64 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Cezanne H | Comet Lake-H |
| Socket | FP6 | FCBGA1440 |
| Integrated GPU | AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) | Intel® UHD Graphics for 10th Gen Intel® Processors |
Performance
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX | Intel Core i9 10980HK | |
| Cores | 8 | 8 |
| Threads | 16 | 16 |
| Base Frequency | 3.3 GHz | 2.4 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency | 4.6 GHz | 5.1 GHz |
| L1 Cache | 64K (per core) | 64K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 512K (per core) | 256K (per core) |
| L3 Cache | 16 MB (shared) | 16 MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | Yes |
Power
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX | Intel Core i9 10980HK | |
| Fabrication process | 7 nm | 14 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 45 W | 45 W |
| Max. temperature | 105°C | 100°C |
Memory support
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX | Intel Core i9 10980HK | |
| Memory types | DDR4-4266 | DDR4 |
| Memory Size | GB | 128 GB |
| Max. Memory Channels | 2 | |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | - | 45.8 GB/s |
| ECC Support | No | No |
iGPU
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX | Intel Core i9 10980HK | |
| Integrated Graphics | AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) | Intel® UHD Graphics for 10th Gen Intel® Processors |
| GPU Base Clock | MHz | 350 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | MHz | 1.25 MHz |
| Shading Units | 512 | 192 |
| TMUs | 32 | 24 |
| ROPs | 8 | 3 |
| TGP | 15 W | 15 W |
iGPU FLOPS
Misc
| AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX | Intel Core i9 10980HK | |
| Official site | AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX official page | Intel Core i9 10980HK official page |
| PCI Express Version | 3 | 4 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 16 |