Intel Core i9-13980HX vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Core i9-13980HX vs Ryzen 9 9950X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i9-13980HX that has 5 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13980HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. 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.