Intel Core i9-13950HX vs Intel Core i7-12850HX

Core i9-13950HX vs Core i7-12850HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12850HX is faster than the Core i9-13950HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-13950HX in all gaming tests too.

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 i7-12850HX that has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12850HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-13950HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-12850HX. Also, the Core i9-13950HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-13950HX has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-12850HX. 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.