Intel Core i7-12800HX vs Intel Core i5-13500

Core i7-12800HX vs Core i5-13500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500 beats the Core i7-12800HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12800HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-12800HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-13500 that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12800HX. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-12800HX also has slightly 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 i7-12800HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.