Today we have a comparison between two rivals in the CPU market. These two CPUs are some of the best when it comes to productivity and gaming. Today we are giving you the battle of the Intel Core i9-10980HK against the AMD Ryzen 7 4800HK. You can also check where both of these CPUs stand in our Top Laptop CPU Ranking.
Here you can find out more about both CPUs: Intel Core i9-10980HK / AMD Ryzen 7 4800H
Specs table
| Intel Core i9-10980HK | AMD Ryzen 7 4800H | |
|---|---|---|
| Cores/Threads | 8/16 | 8/16 |
| Manufacturing process | 14nm | 7nm |
| Cache | 16MB | 8MB |
| Architecture | Comet Lake H | Zen 2 |
| Frequency: Base/Max | 2.40GHz/5.10GHz | 2.90GHz/4.20GHz |
| Memory type | DDR4-2933MHz | DDR4-3200MHz, LPDDR4-4266MHz |
| Integrated graphics | Intel HD Graphics 630 | AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (Ryzen 4000, 35/45W) |
CPU benchmarks
The 3D Rendering scores were really close, but the Intel CPU won by 1% over the AMD CPU. In terms of Photoshop scores, here the Core i9-10980HK won again this time with a larger margin of 32% or nearly 2 seconds faster.
Results are from the Cinebench 15 CPU test (the higher the score, the better)
Results are from the Fritz chess benchmark (the higher the score, the better)
Results are from our Photoshop benchmark test (the lower the score, the better)
Conclusion
This is one of the rare times where we see such close comparisons. Even more than that – an Intel CPU won so that’s even rarer in 2020. While the Core i9-10980HK won by a single percent in the 3D Rendering test, a win is still a win. Where it shined more is in the Photoshop test, where it crushed the competition. However, keep in mind that the Intel processor is far more expensive than its counterpart so that technically puts the two CPUs in a different category.
