Intel Core i7-11700K vs Intel Core i9-13950HX

Core i7-11700K vs Core i9-13950HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13950HX beats the Core i7-11700K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-11700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i7-11700K that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-11700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13950HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-13950HX has more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700K. The Core i9-13950HX 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.