AMD Ryzen 9 7900X vs Intel Core i9-13980HX

Ryzen 9 7900X vs Core i9-13980HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X is faster than the Core i9-13980HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13980HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i9-13980HX that has 5 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13980HX. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-13980HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7900X. The Core i9-13980HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.