Intel Core i7-14700 vs Intel Core i5-13600HX

Core i7-14700 vs Core i5-13600HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-14700 performs better than the Core i5-13600HX. Despite this, the Core i5-13600HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700 has many more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i5-13600HX that 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 i7-14700. Despite this, the Core i7-14700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13600HX. The Core i7-14700 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 i7-14700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.