Certainly one of Intel’s latest cellular CPUs, the Intel Core i9-13980HX, has solely been within the wild since yesterday, and already it’s reclaimed the primary spot within the PassMark cellular CPU benchmark rating.

As revealed by the PassMark check and reported on by VideoCardz, the Core i9-13980HX scored 54,483 factors whereas the Core i9-13900HX has a rating of 51,739 factors. The 2 Raptor Lake-HX CPUs, which characteristic 24 cores and a TDP of 55W, have surpassed the 12-core AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX Zen four processor, placing the latter in third place on the benchmark rating listing, and securing Intel’s place because the main cellular processor maker.

In response to the info, we will infer that the Raptor Lake-HX is between 9% to 14% quicker than the 7845HX in single-threaded exams and is at the very least 11% quicker in multicore efficiency. Nonetheless, AMD is planning on a 16-core Ryzen 9 7945HX processor, as revealed throughout its CES 2023 keynote. That will doubtless reduce the hole, particularly because the Intel Core i9-13980HX solely has eight efficiency cores, with 16 effectivity cores to again these up. 

AMD doesn’t use massive.LITTLE structure, so these 16 Ryzen 9 7945HX cores are all going to be operating at full throttle.

What does this imply for AMD?

These PassMark benchmarks are fascinating in what they reveal in regards to the cellular Raptor Lake-HX cellular CPUs, and it’ll be much more fascinating to see how properly they do in additional mainstream benchmarks like CPU-Z Validator and Geekbench.

If these exams are favorable sufficient, it might actually make these two processors a few of the finest processors available on the market, cellular or in any other case. And even with the upcoming 16-core 7945HX from AMD, it may not be sufficient to even match the Raptor Lake chips, not to mention surpass them. 

Almost definitely the one method AMD might win this matchup is thru the pricing of laptops that use its chips, however that’s as much as these manufacturers to set. Though usually, there’s a distinction in value between Intel laptops and AMD laptops, so it’s undoubtedly potential.