AMD Ryzen 5 9600X vs Intel Core i7-13800H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i7 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

8673 points

9209 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12393 points

7% slightly better gaming score

11569 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7498 points

8514 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7245 points

8394 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

233.29 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

192.82 points

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

3.9 GHz

56% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

5.2 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

11.5 MiB

91% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

118th of 1,089

106th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series

13th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 August

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 9600X vs Core i7-13800H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-13800H performs better than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13800H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 9600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13800H. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-13800H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-13800H.

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 9600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.