Intel Core i5-13600HX vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8170M

Core i5-13600HX vs Xeon Platinum 8170M comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13600HX beats the Xeon Platinum 8170M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Platinum 8170M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more cores with 26 cores whereas the Core i5-13600HX has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600HX. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13600HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Platinum 8170M. In terms of cache, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13600HX. The Xeon Platinum 8170M also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-13600HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.