Intel Core i9-13980HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Core i9-13980HX vs Ryzen 9 7900 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13980HX beats the Ryzen 9 7900 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7900 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more cores than the Core i9-13980HX. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900 has 12 cores compared to 5 cores found in the Core i9-13980HX. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13980HX. In terms of cache, the Core i9-13980HX has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 7900. The Core i9-13980HX 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 i9-13980HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.