We also ran a couple of games on our review units, to see how the two CPUs impact the experience in this case. To keep things consistent between the tested units, we’re only looking at the Ryzen 9 and Core i9 configurations of the Legion 7, at QHD resolution and Ultra settings. That’s because the Helios 500 and the Scar 17 are different-power RTX 3080 implementations, and one has a MUX and the other does not.

At single-threaded workloads, the Intel Core i9-13900K is in the lead. With very minor differences in threaded work depending on the workload, it effectively ties the Ryzen 9 7950X in multi-threaded workloads. However, AMD’s Ryzen 7000 adds hardware acceleration to speed AVX-512 workloads, giving it a real advantage over Raptor Lake in a growing number of heavily threaded activities. As a result, this section is tied. Although Intel has come a long way, AMD continues to produce the most energy-efficient CPUs. They not only consume less peak power, but they also work more efficiently per unit of electricity used. You’ll have a cooler, quieter system as a result of the overall victory in power consumption, efficiency, and thermal output.

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Zen 3 is a feature of the AMD 5000 series CPUs. AMD Ryzen 9 models from that series will be equipped with Zen 3 architecture. Earlier series will feature previous generations of Zen architecture. Can I use an AMD 5000 Series Ryzen 9 CPU on a 400 Series motherboard? Broadly speaking, today's laptop processors use either the ARM or x86 architecture. The latter was created by Intel in 1978 and dominates the PC industry, with Intel and AMD battling for market-share supremacy. ARM-based chips, on the other hand, are produced by hundreds of different companies under license from the British firm ARM Limited, owned by Softbank. (For a while, it looked like Nvidia was on the path to acquiring ARM from Softbank, but the chip maker has abandoned its efforts.) Every processor is based on an underlying design called an instruction-set architecture. This blueprint determines how the processor understands computer code. Since software operating systems and applications are written to work most efficiently—or sometimes only—on a certain architecture, this is probably the most important decision point for your next processor. The Intel CPU tends to have an edge over the Ryzen 9 in these tests. We’re looking at roughly 3-8% higher scores in both single-core and some multi-core tests, although in multi-threaded loads the two CPUs trade blows between the different tests.

Both CPUs include integrated graphics, however, Intel has the advantage here thanks to UHD Graphics 770. It is not advisable to rely on AMD’s Radeon-integrated GPU for demanding applications like gaming and video editing because it is primarily utilized for visual output. We’ll first go over the sustained CPU performance in the Cinebench R15 loop test, which runs the same test for 15+ times in a loop, with 1-2 sec delay between each run.AMD's Ryzen 7000 still holds the advantage in all power consumption metrics, including peak power and efficiency, resulting in more forgiving cooling requirements and a cooler and quieter system. However, AMD has increased its power consumption significantly with this generation, so the advantage isn't as pronounced as we've seen in the past. The 5900X's advantage is evident across nearly the full gamut of our threaded benchmarks, with compression and decompression experiencing tremendous uplift on the strength of the 5900X's 12 cores. The 5900X also dominates in rendering workloads, like our various Blender, C-Ray ray tracing, Cinebench R23, and v-ray rendering tests. Though the race is closer on gaming than it is on productivity, in lightly threaded frame-rate record-setters like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, the Ryzen 9 5900X gives our sample GPU (the still very high-end GeForce RTX 2080 Ti) the room it needs to sail to new heights at 4K by 30fps over the Intel Core i9-10900K, and at 1080p by 75fps.

The gap between the two diminishes to about 7% on the Performance profile, with both units running at 70W of power in this mode. The Intel Core i9-13900K vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X rivalry places Intel’s 13th-Gen Raptor Lake with an x86 hybrid architecture against AMD’s Zen 4 based Ryzen 7000 family for supremacy at the top of the mainstream desktop PC market. As the Intel vs AMD battle enters a new phase, these two fundamentally different approaches have shifted our list of the best CPUs for our needs, but the competition is closer than it appears on the surface. The only cores with two threads are Intel’s P-cores, which results in an unbalanced ratio of threads to cores. When Intel is able to reduce the size of its manufacturing process to match that of AMD’s rival TSMC, it will also be able to use a more modern manufacturing method with a more efficient transistor design. Most of the market wants the low power features of the iGPU, especially for mobile devices (that some of them do use desktop CPUs now) but even on desktop, being able to sync a movie to any device in super speed without even bothering the CPU and using extremely low power is more appealing to some people then being able to do 3d rendering faster...because nobody in the desktop market does 3D, nobody being the amount of people that buy 5900 and 5950, it's a small amount of people.The next batch of work-related loads showcases the difference between the two in creative activities. Turbo mode By most of the measures we've gathered here today, it's clear that the move to 10nm and Intel 7 Process has done wonders for Intel's competitiveness on the desktop in mainstream content creation on chips like the Core i9-12900K versus previous generations. But those wins come at a price. Both chips have their respective strengths, and those strengths are important enough differentiators that they could be the make-or-break decision based upon your needs. AMD's Ryzen 9 5900X comes with 12 cores and 24 threads that will leave the 11900K completely outmatched in threaded applications. Meanwhile, the Core i9-11900K comes with 5.3 GHz boost speeds that will equate to faster performance in single-threaded apps, meaning it will be snappier on the desktop. And here are a couple more Ryzen 9 6900HX and Core i9-12900H models in this same test, to verify our findings on these ROG platforms.

Today's laptop CPUs are composed, in part, of two or more physical cores. A core is essentially a logical brain. All else being equal, more cores are better than fewer, although there's a ceiling to how many you can take advantage of in any given situation. A much-simplified analogy is the number of cylinders in a car engine. Until we see more Alder Lake-compatible motherboards outside of the Z690 chipset family being released, ownership of Intel 12th Gen chips will come at a higher cost compared to getting an AM4 system off the ground. My test system includes an Nvidia RTX 3070, 16GB of Corsair 3,466MHz memory and a custom water ... [+] cooling system to eliminate any thermal limits. Antony Leather Besides raw specs and performance benchmarks, there are several differences in the feature sets for the respective Ryzen 9 and Core i9 platforms that might factor into your buying decision.The differences between Ryzen 9 and Intel i9 processors largely come down to architecture. All Ryzen 9 CPUs have Zen 4 architecture while Intel i9 chips carry Raptor Lake. Let’s start with Ryzen. The AMD platform, on the other hand, is the more capable performer on battery power, and the more efficient of the two, especially with light daily use and video streaming. Some Intel Core i9 units are better optimized than others, though, so you can get longer battery life with some options that we got on the Scar 15 earlier in the year, when we tested it. Before we get into specific CPU recommendations, let's build an understanding of what differentiates one chip from another by focusing on the central traits that all laptop processors have in common.