Intel Core i9-13950HX vs AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS

Core i9-13950HX vs Ryzen 5 8645HS specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13950HX beats the Ryzen 5 8645HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8645HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8645HS that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8645HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8645HS 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 8645HS. The Core i9-13950HX 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 i9-13950HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.