Intel Core i5-13600HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700F

Core i5-13600HX vs Ryzen 7 8700F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13600HX is faster than the Ryzen 7 8700F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8700F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13600HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 8700F. Indeed, the Core i5-13600HX has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 8700F. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8700F has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13600HX. Also, the Ryzen 7 8700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13600HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 8700F. The Core i5-13600HX 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 i5-13600HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.