AMD Ryzen 7 3800X vs Intel Core i7-13850HX

Ryzen 7 3800X vs Core i7-13850HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3800X beats the Core i7-13850HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-13850HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-13850HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 3800X. Indeed, the Core i7-13850HX has 20 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 3800X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3800X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 3800X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13850HX. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-13850HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3800X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3800X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-13850HX.

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 7 3800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.