AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Core i9-13900H

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Core i9-13900H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5900HS performs better than the Core i9-13900H. Despite this, the Core i9-13900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-13900H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. Indeed, the Core i9-13900H has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5900HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13900H. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i9-13900H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 5900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.