Intel Core i5-13420H vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Core i5-13420H vs Ryzen 9 9955HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9955HX beats the Core i5-13420H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more cores than the Core i5-13420H. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i5-13420H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13420H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13420H. Also, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13420H. The Ryzen 9 9955HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-13420H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.