Intel Core i7-13620H vs Intel Core i9-12950HX

Core i7-13620H vs Core i9-12950HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-12950HX 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 i9-12950HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-13620H has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-13620H. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-13620H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-12950HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-12950HX has more L2 cache than the Core i7-13620H. The Core i9-12950HX also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-13620H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.