Intel Core i9 7980XE vs AMD Ryzen AI Max 385

CPU Specs Compare

General Parameters

Release Date
Sep 2017
Jan 2025
Manufacturer
Intel
AMD
Type
Desktop
Laptop
Instruction Set
x86-64
x86-64
Core Architecture
Skylake
Zen 5 (Strix Halo)
Processor Number
i9-7980XE
-
Integrated Graphics
N/A
Radeon 8050S
Generation
-
Ryzen AI Max (Zen 5 (Strix Halo))

Package

Manufacturing Process
14 nm
4 nm
Socket
LGA-2066
FP11
Power Consumption
165 W
45-55 W
Peak Operating Temperature
94 °C
100 °C
Max Turbo Power Consumption
-
120 W
Foundry
-
TSMC
I/O Process Size
-
6 nm
Package
-
FC-BGA

CPU Performance

Performance Cores
18
8
Performance Core Threads
36
16
Performance Core Base Frequency
2.6 GHz
3.6 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency
4.2 GHz
5 GHz
Total Core Count
18
8
Total Thread Count
36
16
Bus Frequency
100 MHz
100 MHz
Multiplier
26x
36
L1 Cache
64 K per core
80 K per core
L2 Cache
1 MB per core
1 MB per core
L3 Cache
25 MB shared
32 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier
Yes
No
Efficiency Cores
-
0
SMP
-
1

Memory Parameters

Memory Types
DDR4-2666
LPDDR5X-8000
Max Memory Size
128 GB
128 GB
Max Memory Channels
4
2
Max Memory Bandwidth
79.47 GB/s
256 GB/s
ECC Memory Support
No
No

Miscellaneous

Official Website
PCIe Version
3.0
4.0
PCIe Lanes
44
16
Extended Instruction Set
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2, AVX-512
-

Graphics Card Parameters

Integrated Graphics
-
true
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency
-
2800 MHz
Shader Units
-
2048
Texture Units
-
128
Raster Operation Units
-
64
Execution Units
-
32
Power Consumption
-
45-120

AI Accelerator

NPU
-
AMD Ryzen™ AI
Theoretical performance
-
55 TOPS

📊 Benchmark

Cinebench R23
1,263
2,150
Cinebench R23
28,196
28,876
Geekbench 6
1,410
2,892
Geekbench 6
11,418
17,206
Passmark CPU
2,492
-
Passmark CPU
30,462
-
Cinebench 2024
-
133
Cinebench 2024
-
1,688