AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Core i9-13900H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i9 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4431 points

7077 points

59% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6004 points

9022 points

50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3931 points

6522 points

65% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3809 points

6425 points

68% significantly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3662 points

8124 points

121% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

114.07 points

200.38 points

75% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.25 GHz

5.4 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

397th of 1,089

187th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

13th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Core i9-13900H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-13900H is faster than the Ryzen 5 2600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2600X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-13900H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 2600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13900H. Despite this, the Core i9-13900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-13900H has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 2600X. The Core i9-13900H 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 Ryzen 5 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.