Intel Core i7-13650HX vs Intel Core i5-13450HX

Core i7-13650HX vs Core i5-13450HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13650HX beats the Core i5-13450HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13450HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13650HX has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-13450HX has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13450HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-13650HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13450HX. Also, the Core i7-13650HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13450HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-13650HX. Despite this, the Core i7-13650HX has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13450HX.

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 i7-13650HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.