Intel Core i5-13400 vs Intel Core i7-13700HX

Core i5-13400 vs Core i7-13700HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13400 is faster than the Core i7-13700HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-13700HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13700HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-13400 that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13400. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-13400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-13700HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-13700HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13400. The Core i7-13700HX 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 i5-13400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.