Intel Core i7-13700HX vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Core i7-13700HX vs Core i5-13500H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700HX beats the Core i5-13500H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13700HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-13500H has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13500H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-13700HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-13700HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500H. The Core i7-13700HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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