Intel Core i7-12700 vs Intel Core i9-13950HX

Core i7-12700 vs Core i9-13950HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-12700 beats the Core i9-13950HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-13950HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i7-12700 has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-12700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13950HX has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i7-12700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.