Intel Core i7-13850HX vs Intel Core i5-13600HX

Core i7-13850HX vs Core i5-13600HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13600HX is faster than the Core i7-13850HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-13850HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13850HX has many more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i5-13600HX has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600HX. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13600HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13850HX. Despite this, the Core i7-13850HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-13850HX has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13600HX. The Core i7-13850HX 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 i7-13850HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.