Intel Core i7-10700 vs Intel Core i5-13500HX

Core i7-10700 vs Core i5-13500HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700 beats the Core i5-13500HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13500HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-10700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500HX. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700. The Core i5-13500HX 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 i7-10700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.