Intel Core i5-13600K vs Intel Core i7-13850HX

Core i5-13600K vs Core i7-13850HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13600K 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 i5-13600K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13600K has a much higher clock speed than the Core i7-13850HX. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-13850HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13600K. The Core i7-13850HX also has slightly 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 i5-13600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.