Intel Core i7-13700HX vs Intel Core i5-13600HX

Core i7-13700HX vs Core i5-13600HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13600HX beats the Core i7-13700HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-13700HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13700HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-13600HX has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600HX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-13600HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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 slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13600HX. The Core i7-13700HX 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 i7-13700HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.