Intel Core i9-10900K vs Intel Core i7-13700HX

Core i9-10900K vs Core i7-13700HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10900K is faster than the Core i7-13700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-13700HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13700HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i9-10900K that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10900K. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10900K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700HX. Also, the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-13700HX has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900K. 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 i9-10900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.