AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Intel Core i9-13950HX

Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Core i9-13950HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13950HX beats the Ryzen 9 5980HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5980HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5980HX has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13950HX. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-13950HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. The Core i9-13950HX 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 5980HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.