Intel Core i7-13700 vs Intel Core i9-13980HX

Core i7-13700 vs Core i9-13980HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700 beats the Core i9-13980HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-13980HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13700 has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i9-13980HX has 5 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-13980HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-13980HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-13700. The Core i9-13980HX also has significantly 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 i7-13700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.