AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D vs Intel Core i9-13980HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 12 core CPU vs Intel 5 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

13385 points
12% slightly better overall score
11886 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13203 points
3% slightly better gaming score
12708 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13450 points
14% slightly better multitasking score
11757 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13474 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score
11895 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

398.41 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
369.58 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
139% significantly more cores
5

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
139% significantly more threads
10

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.40 GHz
100% significantly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz
Identical
5.6 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
16 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

128 MiB
256 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

38th of 1,089
54th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
13th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-5600

Ryzen 9 7900X3D vs Core i9-13980HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D 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 7900X3D 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13980HX. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-13980HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. The Core i9-13980HX 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 7900X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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