Intel Core i9-13950HX vs Intel Core i5-13400F

Core i9-13950HX vs Core i5-13400F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13950HX beats the Core i5-13400F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13400F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i5-13400F that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13400F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13400F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13950HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13400F. The Core i9-13950HX 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 i9-13950HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.