Intel Core i9-14900HX vs Intel Core i9-13980HX

Core i9-14900HX vs Core i9-13980HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-14900HX 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 Core i9-14900HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i9-13980HX that has 5 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. According to our data, the Core i9-14900HX and Core i9-13980HX have the same clock speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-14900HX 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 i9-14900HX.

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 i9-14900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.