Intel Core i5-13600K vs Intel Core i9-13900HX

Core i5-13600K vs Core i9-13900HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13900HX beats the Core i5-13600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-13900HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i5-13600K that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13900HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-13900HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13600K. The Core i9-13900HX 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 i5-13600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.