Intel Core i7-13700K vs Intel Core i9-14900HX

Core i7-13700K vs Core i9-14900HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700K beats the Core i9-14900HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-14900HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-14900HX has significantly more cores than the Core i7-13700K. Indeed, the Core i9-14900HX has 24 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Core i7-13700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-13700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-13700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-14900HX. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i9-14900HX 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 i7-13700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.