Intel Core i9-13900HX vs Intel Core i7-14650HX

Core i9-13900HX vs Core i7-14650HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13900HX beats the Core i7-14650HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-14650HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-13900HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i7-14650HX that has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-14650HX. According to our data, the Core i9-13900HX and Core i7-14650HX have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-13900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-13900HX has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-14650HX. The Core i9-13900HX also has slightly 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 i9-13900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.