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AMD A8-4500M vs Intel Core i9-7980XE

Last updated: 2026-06-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 28 %

AMD A8-4500M

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-7980XE

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 6 %

AMD A8-4500M

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i9-7980XE

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

93 cb

18C / 36T · 4.20 GHz

446 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

316

18C / 36T · 4.20 GHz

1,121

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

285 cb

18C / 36T · 3.50 GHz

7,671 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

844

18C / 36T · 3.50 GHz

16,495

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 1.90 GHz

389

18C / 36T · 2.60 GHz

10,563

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

61 cb

18C / 36T · 4.20 GHz

184 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

4C / 4T · 2.80 GHz

158 cb

18C / 36T · 3.50 GHz

3,455 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	AMD A8-4500M	Intel Core i9-7980XE
Family	AMD A (112)	Intel Core i9 (81)
CPU group	AMD A8-4000M (2)	Intel Core i 7000X (9)
Architecture	Trinity (Piledriver)	Skylake X
Technology	32 nm	14 nm
Segment	Notebook	Desktop
Socket	FS1r2	LGA 2066
Predecessor
Successor		Intel Core i9-9980XE

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	AMD A8-4500M	Intel Core i9-7980XE
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 4	18 / 36
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	18x
Frequency:	1.90 GHz	2.60 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	2.80 GHz	4.20 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	2.80 GHz	3.50 GHz
L2-Cache
L3-Cache	4.00 MB	25.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	AMD A8-4500M	Intel Core i9-7980XE
GPU name	AMD Radeon HD 7640G	no iGPU
GPU frequency	0.50 - 0.69 GHz
CUs / Shader	4 / 256	/
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	2
Max. GPU Memory	2 GB
Technology	32 nm
Release date	Q2/2012

NPU AI performance

Wischen	AMD A8-4500M	Intel Core i9-7980XE
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	AMD A8-4500M	Intel Core i9-7980XE
Memory	DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	DDR4-2666 (85.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory		128 GB
Memory channels	2	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe		3.0 x 44
PCIe Bandwidth		43.3 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	AMD A8-4500M	Intel Core i9-7980XE
TDP	35 W	165 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	AMD A8-4500M	Intel Core i9-7980XE
Chip design	Unknown	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems		Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, FMA3, FMA4	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX-512
Release date	Q2/2012	Q4/2017
Release price		1999 $
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of AMD A8-4500M is 3.8 stars (10 ratings), while Intel Core i9-7980XE has received 4.6 stars (11 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

AMD A8-4500M
4C / 4T · 1.90 - 2.80 GHz

★★★★★

Intel Core i9-7980XE
18C / 36T · 2.60 - 4.20 GHz

★★★★★