Intel Core i9-13980HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D

Core i9-13980HX vs Ryzen 9 7945HX3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D beats the Core i9-13980HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-13980HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i9-13980HX has 5 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13980HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13980HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-13980HX also has slightly 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.