Intel Core i9-10980HK vs Intel Core i7-13850HX

Core i9-10980HK vs Core i7-13850HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13850HX is faster than the Core i9-10980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10980HK in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13850HX has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Core i9-10980HK that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10980HK. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13850HX. In terms of cache, the Core i7-13850HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10980HK. The Core i7-13850HX 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. Indeed, the Core i9-10980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.