AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT vs Intel Core i9-13980HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 5 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

7216 points
11886 points
64% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8527 points
12708 points
49% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6778 points
11757 points
73% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6644 points
11895 points
79% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6357 points
12948 points
103% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.87 points
369.58 points
98% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
60% significantly more cores
5

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
60% significantly more threads
10

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

4.7 GHz
5.6 GHz
19% slightly higher turbo speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
16 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
256 MiB
700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

176th of 1,089
54th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
13th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 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 3800XT vs Core i9-13980HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13980HX beats the Ryzen 7 3800XT in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800XT in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 3800XT has significantly more cores than the Core i9-13980HX. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3800XT has 8 cores compared to 5 cores found in the Core i9-13980HX. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 3800XT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13980HX. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-13980HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3800XT. The Core i9-13980HX 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 7 3800XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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