Intel Core i9-13950HX vs Intel Core i7-14700HX

Core i9-13950HX vs Core i7-14700HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-14700HX beats the Core i9-13950HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-13950HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-13950HX has slightly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i7-14700HX has 20 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-14700HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-13950HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-14700HX. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. In terms of cache, the Core i7-14700HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-13950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13950HX has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700HX.

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 i9-13950HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.