Core i9-13900HX: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i9-13900HX was the flagship of Raptor Lake-HX — a 24-core, desktop-class processor that powered the 2023 generation of big-screen gaming laptops. The catalog matches it to 28 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 52 of the 69 games the site tracks. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings to a portable, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Core i9-13900HX sits in 2026

A catalog score of 67.6 places the chip 99th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — the top seventh of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood is a cross-section of eras: the Xeon E-2286M (67.9), Ryzen 7 7730U (67.8) and Core i5-11500H (67.8) just above, the Ryzen 7 4800HS, Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U and Xeon W-10885M (all 67.6) alongside. The normalization reads this i9 as a strong upper-mainstream part rather than an outlier — respectable company, but the i9 badge alone does not lift it past the century mark.

What the chip brings

Raptor Lake-HX is a 24-core, 32-thread design on a 7 nm-class process, rated at 55 W in its HX-class configuration: a 2.2 GHz base clock and up to 5.4 GHz boost across the hybrid P-core/E-core layout. The integrated Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 with 96 EUs covers display duties on configs without discrete graphics. Memory support and cache details were not captured for this chip, so the table above sticks to what the catalog verifiably holds: a PassMark overall score of 41,750.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 52 of 69 cataloged games — from Alan Wake 2, Black Myth Wukong, Returnal and Ghost of Tsushima through Counter-Strike 2, Metro Exodus and PUBG down to the lightest entries. Another 15 sit at the minimum tier: Fortnite, Cyberpunk 2077, Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, Hogwarts Legacy and Call of Duty: Warzone all list the chip above their minimum but below their recommended CPU requirement. Starfield and Helldivers 2 ask for more processor than this. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and the machines in this roster pair the chip with graphics hardware well above its own level.

Laptops that carry it

The 28-model roster is gaming hardware through and through, split between 2023 and 2024: the OMEN 17-ck2099ng at $2,726 and Legion Pro 7 16IRX8H at $2,051 top the list, the OMEN 17-ck2095cl sits at $2,171, mid-range runs through OMEN 16 and Legion Pro 5 machines at $1,280–$1,600, the Dell G15 5530 and G16 7630 at $1,232–$1,236, and the OMEN 16z-xd000 marks the value end at $894. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100, photo and design at 97, a gaming index of 77 and a best-GPU score of 84.5 — while mobility at 32 and portability at 16.7 say these are desk-class machines that travel reluctantly.

Bottom line

The Core i9-13900HX suits a buyer shopping the 2023 flagship generation at mid-range prices: recommended-tier CPU readiness for three quarters of the tracked catalog, GPU pairings that carry the heaviest titles, and listings from $894 to $2,726 depending on chassis and graphics. The honest caveat is the two holdouts and the fifteen minimum-tier verdicts — for the newest CPU-hungry releases, the GPU does the heavy lifting on these machines. Size is the other trade-off: portability medians near the bottom of the catalog confirm these are stationary-first rigs.