Intel Core i9-10850K vs Intel Core i7-13700HX

Core i9-10850K vs Core i7-13700HX specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10850K performs better than the Core i7-13700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-13700HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-13700HX has significantly more cores than the Core i9-10850K. Indeed, the Core i7-13700HX has 16 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i9-10850K. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10850K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10850K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13700HX. Also, the Core i9-10850K has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-13700HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10850K. The Core i7-13700HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i9-10850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.