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. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-13980HX 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 i9-13900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.