Intel Core i7-9700KF vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Core i7-9700KF vs Core i5-13500H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500H beats the Core i7-9700KF in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-9700KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-9700KF has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-9700KF. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-9700KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500H. Also, the Core i7-9700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13500H has more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700KF. The Core i5-13500H also has significantly 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. For instance, the Core i7-9700KF has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.