Intel Core i7-11700F vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Core i7-11700F vs Core i5-13500H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700F beats the Core i5-13500H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-11700F that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13500H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700F. Despite this, the Core i7-11700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13500H has more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700F. The Core i5-13500H also has slightly 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 i7-11700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.