Intel Core i9-13900F vs Intel Core i9-13980HX

Core i9-13900F vs Core i9-13980HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13900F beats the Core i9-13980HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-13980HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-13900F has significantly more cores than the Core i9-13980HX. Indeed, the Core i9-13900F has 24 cores compared to 5 cores found in the Core i9-13980HX. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-13980HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13900F. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-13980HX 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 i9-13900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.