Intel Core i7-13620H vs Intel Core i5-12600HX

Core i7-13620H vs Core i5-12600HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600HX is faster than the Core i7-13620H. Despite this, the Core i7-13620H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600HX has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-13620H has 10 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-12600HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13620H. Despite this, the Core i7-13620H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-13620H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-12600HX. The Core i7-13620H also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-13620H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.