AMD Ryzen 7 3800X vs Intel Core i9-13900HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i9 24 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

6549 points
11230 points
71% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7888 points
11803 points
49% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6111 points
11141 points
82% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5988 points
11262 points
88% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6209 points
11920 points
91% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.59 points
346.75 points
86% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
24
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
77% significantly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5.4 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
32 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
36 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

218th of 1,089
64th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
13th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 7 3800X vs Core i9-13900HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-13900HX is faster than the Ryzen 7 3800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-13900HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 3800X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3800X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 3800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-13900HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3800X. The Core i9-13900HX also has slightly 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 Ryzen 7 3800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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