Intel Core i7-7820X vs Intel Core i9-13900H

Core i7-7820X vs Core i9-13900H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7820X beats the Core i9-13900H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-13900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-13900H has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-7820X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7820X. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7820X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13900H. Despite this, the Core i9-13900H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i7-7820X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.