AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs Intel Core i7-13850HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i7 20 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

8883 points
8904 points
0.24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9577 points
10350 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8669 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
8534 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8618 points
0.91% slightly better heavy workload score
8540 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

298.75 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
288.81 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
28
16% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
42% much higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.3 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
28 MiB
366% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
113% significantly more L3 cache
30 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

118th of 1,105
116th of 1,105

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
13th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 9 5900 vs Core i7-13850HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13850HX beats the Ryzen 9 5900 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13850HX has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900 that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900 has a much higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13850HX. Despite this, the Core i7-13850HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-13850HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5900. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-13850HX.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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