Intel Core i9-7900X vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Core i9-7900X vs Core i5-13420H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13420H is faster than the Core i9-7900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7900X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-7900X has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Core i5-13420H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13420H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-7900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i9-7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.