Intel Core i7-12650H vs Intel Core i9-13980HX

Core i7-12650H vs Core i9-13980HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12650H beats the Core i9-13980HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-13980HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-12650H has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i9-13980HX has 5 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12650H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13980HX. In terms of cache, the Core i9-13980HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-12650H. The Core i9-13980HX 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 i7-12650H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.