AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs Intel Core i9-13950HX

Ryzen 9 5900 vs Core i9-13950HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-13950HX is faster than the Ryzen 9 5900. 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 i9-13950HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900 that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13950HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-13950HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900 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 5900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.