Intel Core i7-13850HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i7-13850HX vs Ryzen 9 8940HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13850HX 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13850HX has slightly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8940HX has 16 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has more threads than the Core i7-13850HX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13850HX. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-13850HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Core i7-13850HX 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 i7-13850HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.