Intel Core i7-4770K vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Core i7-4770K vs Core i5-13420H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13420H is faster than the Core i7-4770K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4770K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13420H has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4770K. Indeed, the Core i5-13420H has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4770K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4770K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4770K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13420H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4770K. The Core i5-13420H also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-4770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.