Intel Core i5-13600K vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i5-13600K vs Ryzen 9 8940HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13600K beats the Ryzen 9 8940HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has significantly more cores than the Core i5-13600K. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i5-13600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8940HX outputs less heat than Core i5-13600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-13600K 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 i5-13600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.