Intel Core i7-10870H vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Core i7-10870H vs Core i5-13420H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13420H is faster than the Core i7-10870H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10870H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-10870H has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-10870H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13420H. Also, the Core i7-10870H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13420H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13420H.

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 i7-10870H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.