Intel Core i7-13650HX vs Intel Core i7-14650HX

Core i7-13650HX vs Core i7-14650HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13650HX beats the Core i7-14650HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-14650HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14650HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i7-13650HX that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-13650HX. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-13650HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14650HX. Despite this, the Core i7-14650HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-14650HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-13650HX. The Core i7-14650HX 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 i7-13650HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.