Intel Core i5-13400 vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

Core i5-13400 vs Ryzen 9 8945HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13400 performs better than the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8945HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-13400 has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13400. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13400. Also, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13400. The Ryzen 9 8945HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-13400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.