Intel Core i7-13650HX vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Core i7-13650HX vs Core i5-13500H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13650HX is faster than the Core i5-13500H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13500H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13650HX has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i5-13500H that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500H. Both the Core i7-13650HX and Core i5-13500H have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-13650HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13500H 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 i5-13500H.

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.