Intel Core i7-11700K vs Intel Core i5-13500HX

Core i7-11700K vs Core i5-13500HX comparison

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

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i7-11700K that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-11700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500HX. Also, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700K. 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 i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.