AMD Ryzen 9 5980HS Review (RTX 3080 eGPU Tested)

1. Ryzen 9 5980HS - 8 Cores at 35W2. Testing Configurations & Methodology3. Tests: Compute Performance - Cinebench4. Tests: Compute Performance - Blender5. Tests: Compute Performance - Handbrake & 7-Zip6. Tests: System Performance - PCMark 10 & 3DMark7. Tests: GPU + eGPU Gaming 1080p8. Tests: GPU + eGPU Gaming 4K UHD9. Closing Thoughts10. View All Pages

Cinebench R20

Cinebench R20 Back-to-Back

Cinebench R23

Eight Zen 3 cores running at around 3.9GHz for the initial 60W clock surge deliver a very strong victory for the Ryzen 9 5980HS in Cinebench R20. Intel’s power-hungry Core i9-10980HK is beaten by a large – 34% – margin and the Flow X13 is over twice as fast as Razer’s Intel Tiger Lake competitor.

1T scoring of almost 600 points is also chart leading thanks to the 5980HS’s rated boost clock of up to 4.8GHz. Here, the Zen 3 CPU blasts Zen 2 and Comet Lake-H competitors, but Intel’s Tiger Lake Core i7-1165G7 in the Razer Blade is only a little slower.

Running 10 minutes of Cinebench R20 multi-threaded rendering back-to-back sees the Flow X13 drop the Ryzen 9 5980HS from a 60W and 3.9GHz initial boost to around 3.3GHz at 35W steady state. This is far more tolerable from a cooling and power consumption perspective, but the performance drop-off is in the order of a pretty reasonable 10%.

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