AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i9-13950HX

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i9-13950HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-13950HX performs better than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13950HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800X. The Core i9-13950HX also has slightly 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 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.