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Intel Core i9-13950HX is Over 2x Fast as AMD’s Ryzen 9 6900HX: Beats the 12th Gen i9-12900HX by ~40%

Intel’s 13th Gen mobile processors are mostly a refresh of the preceding 12th Gen offerings. Mostly. The Raptor Lake-HX lineup, featuring the BGA implementation of the desktop parts, brings the full feature set of the next-gen stack to (rich) mobile users. We recently got our hands on the Razer Blade 16, which packs the Core i9-13950HX and NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4090 mobility dGPU. Here are the first set of CPU tests from this $3,299 monster:

Comparing the Razer Blade 16 powered by the Core i9-13950HX against contemporary flagships, we get the following chart:

The Raptor Lake-HX part destroys everything in its path. Courtesy of the 24 cores (8P + 16E) and 32 threads running at a peak (single-core) boost clock of 5.5GHz, we have a chip that’s twice as fast as the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX, Team Red’s fastest mobile CPU on the market. We’re looking at a 30-40% performance uplift in the multi-core segment compared to Intel’s own precious-gen Alder Lake-HX offerings.

We included the Cinebench R23 scores of the next-gen AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS based on the Zen 4 architecture (Via: HXL), which hardly affected the results. The Core i9-13950HX is 66% faster than its Dragon Range rival in the multi-threaded benchmark. Remember that the 7840HS is an octa-core part with a TDP of 35W while the 13950HX is a 24-core part with a TDP of 55W+, so it’s not a legit comparison.

Moving to the single-core benchmarks, you can see that not much has changed gen-over-gen on Intel’s side. This is understandable, as the Raptor Cove core is technically a faster Golden Cove with more L2 cache. Compared to the AMD offerings, however, there’s a wide gulf. The Core i9-13950HX is roughly 30% faster than the Ryzen 9 6900HX in the single-threaded Cinebench R23 benchmark.

Cinebench R20 further widens the gap between the next-gen Raptor Lake-HX and its competitors. The Core i9-13950HX is an incredible 2.34x faster than the AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX in the multi-threaded benchmark. Compared to its predecessor, the Core i9-12900HX, we’re looking at a generational gain of close to 30%.

As before, the single-core performance is a much closer affair. The i9-13950HX is about 10% faster than the 12900HX in the 1T Cinebench R20 benchmark while beating the Ryzen 9 6900HX by a lofty 38%, albeit in a larger power envelope. We’ll soon post further benchmarks of the Core i9-13950HX and the GeForce RTX 4090!

Areej Syed

Processors, PC gaming, and the past. I have been writing about computer hardware for over seven years with more than 5000 published articles. Started off during engineering college and haven't stopped since. Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Divinity, Torment, Baldur's Gate and so much more... Contact: areejs12@hardwaretimes.com.
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