Intel Core i7-13790F vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX

Core i7-13790F vs Ryzen 9 7940HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7940HX is faster than the Core i7-13790F. Despite this, the Core i7-13790F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 9 7940HX has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13790F. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7940HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-13790F. The Ryzen 9 7940HX 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 i7-13790F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.