Intel Core i9-13980HX vs Intel Core Ultra 7 265K

Core i9-13980HX vs Core Ultra 7 265K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 265K is faster than the Core i9-13980HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-13980HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 265K has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i9-13980HX that has 5 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. Our comparison shows that the Core Ultra 7 265K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13980HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13980HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 265K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-13980HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13980HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 7 265K.

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 i9-13980HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.