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

Core i7-13700F vs Core i9-13980HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-13980HX is faster than the Core i7-13700F. Despite this, the Core i7-13700F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13700F 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-13980HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13700F. Also, the Core i9-13980HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-13700F has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-13980HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13980HX has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-13700F.

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 i7-13700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.