Intel Core i9-13900HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Core i9-13900HX vs Ryzen 9 5900XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900XT beats the Core i9-13900HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-13900HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-13900HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Indeed, the Core i9-13900HX has 24 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5900XT. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-13900HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-13900HX.

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 i9-13900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.