Ryzen 9 5980HS vs EPYC 7H12

Place in the ranking	46	550
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Server	Laptop
Series	AMD EPYC	Cezanne (Zen 3, Ryzen 5000)
Power efficiency	14.82	36.29
Architecture codename	Zen 2 (2017−2020)	Cezanne-HS (Zen 3) (2021)
Release date	18 September 2019 (5 years ago)	12 January 2021 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

EPYC 7H12 and Ryzen 9 5980HS basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores	64 (Tetrahexaconta-Core)	8 (Octa-Core)
Threads	128	16
Base clock speed	2.6 GHz	3 GHz
Boost clock speed	3.3 GHz	4.8 GHz
Multiplier	26	30
L1 cache	96K (per core)	512 KB
L2 cache	512K (per core)	4 MB
L3 cache	256 MB (shared)	16 MB (shared)
Chip lithography	7 nm, 14 nm	7 nm
Die size	192 mm²	156 mm²
Maximum core temperature	no data	105 °C
Number of transistors	4,800 million	9,800 million
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	+	+
Unlocked multiplier	+	-

Compatibility

Information on EPYC 7H12 and Ryzen 9 5980HS compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration	2 (Multiprocessor)	1
Socket	TR4	FP6
Power consumption (TDP)	280 Watt	35 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by EPYC 7H12 and Ryzen 9 5980HS. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	no data	MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI	+	+
FMA	-	+
AVX	+	+
Precision Boost 2	+	no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by EPYC 7H12 and Ryzen 9 5980HS are enumerated here.

AMD-V

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by EPYC 7H12 and Ryzen 9 5980HS. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types	DDR4 Eight-channel	DDR4
Maximum memory size	4 TiB	no data
Max memory channels	8	no data
Maximum memory bandwidth	204.763 GB/s	no data
ECC memory support	+	-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

no data

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by EPYC 7H12 and Ryzen 9 5980HS.

PCIe version

no data

3.0

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

EPYC 7H12 45.50
+227%

Ryzen 9 5980HS 13.93

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

EPYC 7H12 69633
+227%

Ryzen 9 5980HS 21318