Intel Core i7-13700HX vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Core i7-13700HX vs Ryzen 5 9600X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-13700HX performs better than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-13700HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Indeed, the Core i7-13700HX has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 9600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13700HX. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-13700HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-13700HX.

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 i7-13700HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.