Intel Core i9-11900K vs Intel Core i7-13650HX

Core i9-11900K vs Core i7-13650HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-13650HX performs better than the Core i9-11900K. Despite this, the Core i9-11900K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13650HX has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i9-11900K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13650HX. Also, the Core i9-11900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i7-13650HX 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 i9-11900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.