AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i7-13700HX

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i7-13700HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 3900X performs better than the Core i7-13700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-13700HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13700HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 3900X that has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-13700HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-13700HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 3900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-13700HX.

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 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.