Intel’s mobile monster
AMD’S NEW DRAGON RANGE has been outclassed a week after its launch by Intel’s i9-13980HX and 13900HX, both destined for power-mad gaming laptops. Both use eight P-cores and 16 E-cores, so we have 32 threads in a laptop for the first time. The 13980HX can buzz along at a maximum boost of 5.6GHz, while the 13900HX is 200MHz behind and has 100MHz slower E-cores. Otherwise, the 55W chips are the same, and even have the same price: $668. These prove to be about 10 to 15 percent faster than AMD’s best. Only the forthcoming 16-core Ryzen 9 7945HX could rival these.