After introducing its Raptor Lake desktop CPUs in 2022, Intel now unveiled its laptop equivalents with the new 13th gen HX-series at CES 2023. The new HX Series CPUs target gamers and creators and offer up to 24 total cores with 8 performance cores and 16 efficiency ones as well as a 5.6 GHz max frequency on the P-cores. Intel claims the Core i9-13980HX is the world’s fastest mobile processor.
The i9-13980HX offers an 11% leap in single-thread performance and an impressive 49% improvement in multi-thread work. It supports 32MB L3 cache, 16 lanes of PCIe 5.0, up to DDR5 5600 memory and up to four Thunderbolt 4 ports. All of the new HX CPUs boast a 55W base power and a max Turbo output of 157W. The baseline i5-13450HX CPU gets 10 total cores with 6 performance and 4 efficiency ones.
