Intel Core i9-10900X vs Intel Core i7-13700H

Core i9-10900X vs Core i7-13700H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700H beats the Core i9-10900X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10900X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13700H has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i9-10900X has 10 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-10900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700H. Despite this, the Core i7-13700H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i9-10900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.