AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i9-13980HX

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i9-13980HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X beats the Core i9-13980HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-13980HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more cores than the Core i9-13980HX. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X 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 5800X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13980HX. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-13980HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800X. 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 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.