AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Intel Celeron N3450

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AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Celeron N3450
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX Intel Celeron N3450

CPU comparison

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX or Intel Celeron N3450 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX has 8 cores with 16 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.80 GHz. Up to 64 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX was released in Q2/2021.

The Intel Celeron N3450 has 4 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.20 GHz. The CPU supports up to 8 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Celeron N3450 was released in Q3/2016.
AMD Ryzen 9 (40) Family Intel Celeron (165)
AMD Ryzen 5000H (11) CPU group Intel Celeron J3000/N3000 (10)
4 Generation 8
Cezanne (Zen 3) Architecture Braswell
Mobile Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
AMD Ryzen 9 6980HX Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX has 8 CPU cores and can calculate 16 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX is 3.30 GHz (4.80 GHz) while the Intel Celeron N3450 has 4 CPU cores and 4 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Celeron N3450 is at 1.10 GHz (2.20 GHz).

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX Characteristic Intel Celeron N3450
8 Cores 4
16 Threads 4
normal Core architecture normal
Yes Hyperthreading No
No Overclocking ? No
3.30 GHz Frequency 1.10 GHz
4.80 GHz Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 2.20 GHz
4.40 GHz Turbo Frequency (All Cores) 2.20 GHz

NPU AI performance

The performance values of the processor's AI unit. The isolated NPU performance is specified here, the total AI performance (NPU+CPU+iGPU) can be higher. Processors with support for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors.

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX Characteristic Intel Celeron N3450
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --
-- NPU + CPU + iGPU --

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

The AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX or Intel Celeron N3450 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir) GPU Intel HD Graphics 500
0.40 GHz GPU frequency 0.20 GHz
1.90 GHz GPU (Turbo) 0.70 GHz
9 GPU Generation 9
7 nm Technology 14 nm
3 Max. displays 3
8 Compute units 12
512 Shader 96
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
8 GB Max. GPU Memory 8 GB
12 DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir) GPU Intel HD Graphics 500
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP9 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 No
Decode / Encode Codec AVC Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX can use up to 64 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 51.2 GB/s. The Intel Celeron N3450 supports up to 8 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 29.9 GB/s.

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX Characteristic Intel Celeron N3450
LPDDR4-4266, DDR4-3200 Memory LPDDR4-2400, LPDDR3-1866, DDR3L-1866
64 GB Max. Memory 8 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
51.2 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 29.9 GB/s
No ECC No
4.00 MB L2 Cache --
16.00 MB L3 Cache 2.00 MB
3.0 PCIe version 2.0
12 PCIe lanes 6
11.8 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth 3.0 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX is 45 W, while the Intel Celeron N3450 has a TDP of 6 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX Characteristic Intel Celeron N3450
45 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 6 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
90 W TDP up --
-- TDP down 4 W
105 °C Tjunction max. 105 °C

Technical details

The AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX is manufactured in 7 nm and has 20.00 MB cache. The Intel Celeron N3450 is manufactured in 14 nm and has a 2.00 MB cache.

AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX Characteristic Intel Celeron N3450
7 nm Technology 14 nm
Chiplet Chip design Monolithic
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2
FP6 Socket BGA 1296
AMD-V, SVM Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT
Yes AES-NI Yes
Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q2/2021 Release date Q3/2016
-- Release price 107 $
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX (100%)
Intel Celeron N3450 (16%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 4 CPU benchmarks
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX (100%)
Intel Celeron N3450 (10%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz
1614 (100%)
Intel Celeron N3450 Intel Celeron N3450
4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz
308 (19%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
9265 (100%)
Intel Celeron N3450 Intel Celeron N3450
4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz
1122 (12%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz
2023 (100%)
Intel Celeron N3450 Intel Celeron N3450
4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz
264 (13%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
7845 (100%)
Intel Celeron N3450 Intel Celeron N3450
4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz
775 (10%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz
604 (100%)
Intel Celeron N3450 Intel Celeron N3450
4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz
103 (17%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
4560 (100%)
Intel Celeron N3450 Intel Celeron N3450
4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz
351 (8%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir) @ 1.90 GHz
1946 (100%)
Intel Celeron N3450 Intel Celeron N3450
Intel HD Graphics 500 @ 0.70 GHz
134 (7%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
23840 (100%)
Intel Celeron N3450 Intel Celeron N3450
4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz
1975 (8%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz
1524 (100%)
Intel Celeron N3450 Intel Celeron N3450
4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
13460 (100%)
Intel Celeron N3450 Intel Celeron N3450
4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz
0 (0%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 3.30 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Celeron N3450 Intel Celeron N3450
4C 4T @ 1.10 GHz
608 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Celeron N3450 Intel Celeron N3450
4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz
44 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Celeron N3450 Intel Celeron N3450
4C 4T @ 2.20 GHz
160 (100%)

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