AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX Benchmark, Test and specs

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The AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX has 8 cores with 16 threads and is based on the 4. gen of the AMD Ryzen 9 series. The processor uses a mainboard with the FP6 socket and was released in Q2/2021. The AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX scores 1,614 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 9,265 points.
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX

CPU lineage

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Name: AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
Family: AMD Ryzen 9 (34)
CPU group: AMD Ryzen 5000H (11)
Architecture: Cezanne (Zen 3)
Segment: Mobile
Generation: 4
Predecessor: --
Successor: AMD Ryzen 9 6980HX

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). The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.

CPU Cores / Threads: 8 / 16
Core architecture: normal
Cores: 8x
Hyperthreading / SMT: Yes
Overclocking: No
Frequency: 3.30 GHz
Turbo Frequency (1 Core): 4.80 GHz
Turbo Frequency (8 Cores): 4.40 GHz

Internal Graphics

The AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX uses the AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir), which has 512 texture shaders and 8 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

GPU name: AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir)
GPU frequency: 0.40 GHz
GPU (Turbo): 1.90 GHz
Compute units: 8
Shader: 512
Hardware Raytracing: No
Release date: Q1/2020
Max. displays: 3
Generation: 9
Direct X: 12
Technology: 7 nm
Max. GPU Memory: 8 GB
Frame Generation: No

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.

h265 / HEVC (8 bit): Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC (10 bit): Decode / Encode
h264: Decode / Encode
VP8: Decode / Encode
VP9: Decode / Encode
AV1: No
AVC: Decode / Encode
VC-1: Decode
JPEG: Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The processor can use up to 64 GB memory in 2 (Dual Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 51.2 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system.

Memory type: Memory bandwidth:
LPDDR4-4266
DDR4-3200
51.2 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Max. Memory: 64 GB
Memory channels: 2 (Dual Channel)
ECC: No
PCIe: 3.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth: 11.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 45 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU.

TDP (PL1 / PBP): 45 W
TDP (PL2): --
TDP up: 90 W
TDP down: --
Tjunction max.: 105 °C

Technical details

The AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX is made in 7 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 20.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.

Technology: 7 nm
Chip design: Chiplet
Socket: FP6
L2-Cache: 4.00 MB
L3-Cache: 16.00 MB
AES-NI: Yes
Operating systems: Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Virtualization: AMD-V, SVM
Instruction set (ISA): x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions: SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release date: Q2/2021
Release price: --
Part Number: --
Documents: --

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Benchmark results

Verified Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.


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.
Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU) Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz
1534
Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU) Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
8C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
1534
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
1532
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz
1524
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS
8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz
1521
Intel Core i7-11850H Intel Core i7-11850H
8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz
1517
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
1517

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 7 6800H AMD Ryzen 7 6800H
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
13611
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U
8C 16T @ 3.30 GHz
13549
Intel Core i7-1280P Intel Core i7-1280P
14C 20T @ 3.00 GHz
13549
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
13460
AMD Ryzen 7 8840U AMD Ryzen 7 8840U
8C 16T @ 3.30 GHz
13450
AMD Ryzen 7 7840U AMD Ryzen 7 7840U
8C 16T @ 3.30 GHz
13450
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 6850U
8C 16T @ 2.70 GHz
13421

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.
Intel Core i5-12400T Intel Core i5-12400T
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz
1627
Intel Core i7-1265U Intel Core i7-1265U
10C 12T @ 4.80 GHz
1615
Intel Core i7-1265UL Intel Core i7-1265UL
10C 12T @ 4.80 GHz
1615
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz
1614
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 5945 AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 5945
12C 24T @ 4.70 GHz
1613
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
1611
Intel Core i7-12700HL Intel Core i7-12700HL
14C 20T @ 4.70 GHz
1607

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.
Intel Core i5-1350P Intel Core i5-1350P
12C 16T @ 1.90 GHz
9270
Intel Core i7-10700K Intel Core i7-10700K
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
9268
Intel Core i7-10700KF Intel Core i7-10700KF
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
9268
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
9265
AMD EPYC 7252 AMD EPYC 7252
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
9264
Intel Core i7-1270P Intel Core i7-1270P
12C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
9260
Intel Xeon Gold 6250 Intel Xeon Gold 6250
8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
9251

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.
Intel Core i9-11900H Intel Core i9-11900H
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz
2040
AMD EPYC 9654 AMD EPYC 9654
96C 192T @ 3.70 GHz
2025
AMD EPYC 9654P AMD EPYC 9654P
96C 192T @ 3.70 GHz
2025
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz
2023
AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS
8C 16T @ 4.75 GHz
2023
Intel Xeon E-2334 Intel Xeon E-2334
4C 8T @ 4.80 GHz
2008
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
2004

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.
Intel Core i5-11400 Intel Core i5-11400
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz
7895
Intel Core i7-8086K Intel Core i7-8086K
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
7892
MediaTek Dimensity 9300 MediaTek Dimensity 9300
8C 8T @ 3.25 GHz
7880
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
7845
AMD Ryzen 5 8540U AMD Ryzen 5 8540U
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
7841
AMD Ryzen 5 7545U AMD Ryzen 5 7545U
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
7841
AMD Ryzen 5 7540U AMD Ryzen 5 7540U
6C 12T @ 3.20 GHz
7841

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.
Intel Core i7-11375H Intel Core i7-11375H
4C 8T @ 5.00 GHz
610
Intel Core i9-11950H Intel Core i9-11950H
8C 16T @ 5.00 GHz
610
Intel Core i9-11980HK Intel Core i9-11980HK
8C 16T @ 5.00 GHz
610
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.80 GHz
604
AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS
8C 16T @ 4.75 GHz
604
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
6C 12T @ 4.60 GHz
604
Intel Xeon W-11855M Intel Xeon W-11855M
6C 12T @ 4.90 GHz
599

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.
Intel Core i9-9820X Intel Core i9-9820X
10C 20T @ 4.00 GHz
4677
Intel Xeon W-11855M Intel Xeon W-11855M
6C 12T @ 3.80 GHz
4586
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz
4562
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
4560
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
4546
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE
6C 12T @ 3.70 GHz
4511
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650G AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650G
6C 12T @ 4.20 GHz
4511

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 5 3400G AMD Ryzen 5 3400G
AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.40 GHz
1971
AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3400G
AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.40 GHz
1971
AMD Ryzen 7 3780U AMD Ryzen 7 3780U
AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.40 GHz
1971
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir) @ 1.90 GHz
1946
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS Creator Edition
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir) @ 1.90 GHz
1946
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir) @ 1.90 GHz
1946
AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir) @ 1.90 GHz
1946

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.
Intel Xeon Gold 6140 Intel Xeon Gold 6140
18C 36T @ 2.80 GHz
23965
Intel Xeon W-1370 Intel Xeon W-1370
8C 16T @ 4.00 GHz
23924
Intel Xeon W-1390 Intel Xeon W-1390
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
23917
AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX
8C 16T @ 4.40 GHz
23840
AMD Ryzen 7 6800H AMD Ryzen 7 6800H
8C 16T @ 3.80 GHz
23788
AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT
8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz
23728
Intel Xeon W-11865MRE Intel Xeon W-11865MRE
8C 16T @ 3.20 GHz
23717

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