Intel Core i5-11600 vs Intel Core i7-13850HX

Core i5-11600 vs Core i7-13850HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11600 beats the Core i7-13850HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-13850HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13850HX has significantly more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i5-11600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13850HX. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-13850HX has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600. The Core i7-13850HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-11600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.