Intel Core i7-13650HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i7-13650HX vs Ryzen 9 8940HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13650HX 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13650HX has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13650HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-13650HX 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 i7-13650HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.