Core i7-13700H: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i7-13700H is the Raptor Lake refresh of Intel's mainstream H-class line — a 14-core design that powered 2023 and 2024 gaming and productivity laptops. The catalog matches it to 112 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 49 of the 69 games the site tracks. This guide covers where the chip sits among laptop CPUs, what it brings to a portable, and which laptops carry it.

Where the Core i7-13700H sits in 2026

A catalog score of 59 places the chip 176th of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the upper third of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood mixes old and new: the Core i7-9850H (59.5), Ryzen AI 7 450 (59.4) and Core i7-13800H (59.2) just above, the Core Ultra 7 165H (58.9), Core i7-9750H (58.9) and Core i5-1145G7 (58.8) just below. A modern 14-core part sitting a hair above the Core i7-9750H tells you the middle of this table is tightly packed — within this tier, generational upgrades buy fractions of a point, and the 13700H's advantage shows up in bursts rather than in rank.

What the chip brings

Raptor Lake-H is a 14-core, 20-thread design built on a 7 nm-class process and rated at 45 W in its H-class configuration: a 2.4 GHz base clock and up to 5 GHz boost. The integrated Iris Xe graphics with 96 execution units runs at up to 1,500 MHz, which matters for the machines in this roster that ship without discrete graphics. Memory support was not captured for this chip, so the table above sticks to what the catalog verifiably holds: a PassMark overall score of 25,931.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 49 of 69 cataloged games — Counter-Strike 2, Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Metro Exodus, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Returnal, Ghost of Tsushima, Black Myth Wukong and God of War among them. Another 18 sit at the minimum tier: Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Fortnite, Hogwarts Legacy, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Red Dead Redemption 2 all list the chip above their minimum but below their recommended CPU requirement. Only Starfield and Helldivers 2 ask for more processor than this. These verdicts are CPU-only — whether a game actually plays well depends on the laptop's GPU and RAM, and that is where the machines carrying this chip vary most.

Laptops that carry it

The 112-model roster spans 2023 through 2025 and leans gaming. Lenovo's LOQ 17IRX10 sits at $1,440 and the Legion 5 16IRX9 at $1,400; HP's OMEN 16 variants run $1,280 to $1,424; Dell's XPS 15 9530 and G15 5530 cover $1,027 and $1,236. MSI's Creator M14 and the Gigabyte G6 land at $1,152 each, the ASUS ExpertBook P1 handles business duty at $1,007, and the accessible end belongs to the ASUS Vivobook 16 at $650 plus the Envy 17 pair at $680 and $774. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100, a gaming index of 77 and a performance index of 77.1 reflect the discrete-GPU majority, while mobility at 34.5 and portability at 25.8 say these are substantial machines rather than ultrabooks.

Bottom line

The Core i7-13700H is the safe used-buy among 13th-generation H-class chips: an upper-third rank, recommended-tier CPU readiness for 49 of 69 tracked games, and a 112-model roster that runs from $650 Vivobooks to $1,440 gaming rigs. It is not the chip for Starfield-grade CPU loads, and it will not outpace the newest efficiency parts on battery, but as the processor inside a do-everything 2023-2024 laptop it rarely limits the experience. Judge gaming value by the specific GPU in each listing, not the CPU badge.