AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs Intel Core i9-13980HX

Ryzen Z1 Extreme vs Core i9-13980HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-13980HX is faster than the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Z1 Extreme in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i9-13980HX has 5 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme 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 Z1 Extreme. The Core i9-13980HX 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 Z1 Extreme has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.