Intel Core i9-13950HX vs AMD Ryzen 5 8400F

Core i9-13950HX vs Ryzen 5 8400F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13950HX beats the Ryzen 5 8400F in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 8400F. Indeed, the Core i9-13950HX has 24 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 8400F. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8400F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13950HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 8400F. The Core i9-13950HX 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 i9-13950HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.