AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Intel Core i7-13700HX

Ryzen 9 7940HS vs Core i7-13700HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700HX beats the Ryzen 9 7940HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13700HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7940HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700HX. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-13700HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. The Core i7-13700HX 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 7940HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.