Intel Core i5-8250U vs Intel Core i7-13700HX

Core i5-8250U vs Core i7-13700HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700HX beats the Core i5-8250U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8250U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-13700HX has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8250U. Indeed, the Core i7-13700HX has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-8250U. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8250U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-13700HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8250U. Also, the Core i7-13700HX has a significantly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-13700HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8250U. The Core i7-13700HX 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 i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.