AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Intel Core i9-13980HX

Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Core i9-13980HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D beats the Core i9-13980HX in overall performance. 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 7950X3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i9-13980HX that has 5 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13980HX. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. 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 7950X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.