AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i7-13650HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i7 14 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

9859 points

10310 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points

12063 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points

0.62% slightly better multitasking score

9775 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

9667 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10192 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

8971 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

235.32 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

20634 points

21006 points

1% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

42% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

4.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 1,089

80th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

13th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i7-13650HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900X beats the Core i7-13650HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-13650HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13650HX has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5900X has 12 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X has more threads than the Core i7-13650HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13650HX. Despite this, the Core i7-13650HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-13650HX. The Ryzen 9 5900X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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