Intel Core i9-13980HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

Core i9-13980HX vs Ryzen 9 8945HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13980HX beats the Ryzen 9 8945HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8945HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945HX 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13980HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13980HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-13980HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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