Intel Core i9-13950HX vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8170M

Core i9-13950HX vs Xeon Platinum 8170M benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon Platinum 8170M is faster than the Core i9-13950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13950HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has slightly more cores with 26 cores whereas the Core i9-13950HX has 24 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13950HX. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-13950HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Platinum 8170M. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-13950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13950HX has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Xeon Platinum 8170M.

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.