Intel Core i9-13950HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840U

Core i9-13950HX vs Ryzen 7 8840U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-13950HX performs better than the Ryzen 7 8840U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8840U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 8840U has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8840U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840U 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 7 8840U. 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.