Intel Core i7-10700K vs Intel Core i5-13450HX

Core i7-10700K vs Core i5-13450HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10700K is faster than the Core i5-13450HX. Despite this, the Core i5-13450HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13450HX has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i7-10700K that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13450HX. Also, the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13450HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700K. The Core i5-13450HX 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 i7-10700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.