AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS vs Intel Core i5-13600HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 8 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 14 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

9257 points

9716 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11296 points

11822 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8584 points

9088 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points

8975 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

212.59 points

94% significantly higher Blender score

109.13 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz

53% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

4.8 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

11.5 MiB

43% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

104th of 1,089

96th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5 (FP7r2)

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 8945HS vs Core i5-13600HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13600HX is faster than the Ryzen 9 8945HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8945HS in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13600HX has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8945HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8945HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13600HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13600HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8945HS. The Core i5-13600HX 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 8945HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.