Intel Core i5-13400F vs Intel Core i7-12850HX

Core i5-13400F vs Core i7-12850HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12850HX is faster than the Core i5-13400F. Despite this, the Core i5-13400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-13400F that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13400F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-13400F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12850HX. Despite this, the Core i7-12850HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-12850HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13400F. The Core i7-12850HX also has slightly 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 i5-13400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.