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One of Intel’s newest mobile CPUs, the Intel Core i9-13980HX, has only been out in the wild since yesterday and has already reclaimed its number one spot in the PassMark mobile CPU benchmark ranking.
As revealed by the PassMark tested and reported by video cardz, the Core i9-13980HX scored 54,483 points while the Core i9-13900HX has a score of 51,739 points. The two Raptor Lake-HX CPUs (with 24 cores and a TDP of 55W) have outperformed the 12-core AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX Zen 4 processor, placing the latter in third place on the benchmark score list and Intel’s place as the leading maker of mobile processors.
According to the data, we can conclude that the Raptor Lake-HX is between 9-14% faster than the 7845HX in single-threaded tests and at least 11% faster in multicore performance. However, AMD plans to use a 16-core Ryzen 9 7945HX processor as revealed during its CES 2023 keynotewhich would narrow that gap, especially since the Intel Core i9-13980HX only has eight performance cores, with 16 efficiency cores to support those.
AMD doesn’t use a big.LITTLE architecture, so those 16 Ryzen 9 7945HX cores will all be running at full throttle.
What does this mean for AMD?
These PassMark benchmarks are fascinating in what they reveal about the mobile Raptor Lake-HX mobile CPUs, and it will be even more interesting to see how well they fare in more mainstream benchmarks like CPU-Z Validator and Geekbench.
If those tests are favorable enough, it could honestly call these two processors some of the best processors on the market, mobile or otherwise. And even with AMD’s upcoming 16-core 7945HX, it may not be enough to even match, much less surpass, the Raptor Lake chips.
Most likely, the only way AMD could win this matchup is through the pricing of laptops using its chips, but that’s for those brands to determine. So, while there is normally a price difference between Intel laptops and AMD laptops, it is definitely possible.