Intel Core i7-11700F vs Intel Core i9-13900H

Core i7-11700F vs Core i9-13900H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-13900H performs better than the Core i7-11700F. Despite this, the Core i7-11700F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-13900H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i7-11700F that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-13900H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700F. Also, the Core i9-13900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-13900H also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-11700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.