Intel Core i9-10980HK vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Core i9-10980HK vs Core i5-13420H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10980HK beats the Core i5-13420H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i9-10980HK has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13420H. Also, the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13420H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13420H.

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 i9-10980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.