AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Core i9-13950HX

Ryzen 9 3950X vs Core i9-13950HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3950X beats the Core i9-13950HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-13950HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 3950X has 16 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3950X 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 9 3950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-13950HX.

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 9 3950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.