AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Core i9-7980XE

AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3600 MHz / Cores: 6 / Mar 2018
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
Intel Core i9-7980XE
Intel Socket 2066DESKTOP
2600 MHz / Cores: 18 / Sep 2017
Intel Core i9-7980XE

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
    100%
  • Intel Core i9-7980XE
    176%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
    100%
  • Intel Core i9-7980XE
    110%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
    100%
  • Intel Core i9-7980XE
    242%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 2600X

70 watts lower power draw.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i9-7980XE

10% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 142% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 76% higher average synthetic performance.

Intel Core i9-7980XE

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i9-7980XE

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Core i9-7980XE

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Core i9-7980XE

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 2600XIntel Core i9-7980XE
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SMT
XFR
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
AVX2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
HTT
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
FMA3
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
Boost 2.0
Boost 3.0

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 2600XIntel Core i9-7980XE
ArchitectureAMD Zen+vsIntel_Kabylake
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZenvsSkylake-X
Release DateMar 2018vsSep 2017

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 2600XIntel Core i9-7980XE
Cores6vs18
Threads12vs36
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 2600XIntel Core i9-7980XE
L1 Cache96 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs1024 KB (per core)
L3 Cache16384 KB (shared)vs25344 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 2600XIntel Core i9-7980XE
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 2066
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackageuPGAvsFC-LGA2066
Die Size192mm²vs428mm²
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 2600XIntel Core i9-7980XE
Cpu Frequency3600 MHzvs2600 MHz
Turbo Clock4250 MHzvs4400 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP95 Wvs165 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
    4675 points
  • Intel Core i9-7980XE
    5280 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
    28987 points
  • Intel Core i9-7980XE
    67392 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
    1403
  • Intel Core i9-7980XE
    3404

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
    176
  • Intel Core i9-7980XE
    194

points - higher is better