Core i7-13850HX: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i7-13850HX is a Raptor Lake-HX flagship-class processor from 2023, and five catalog laptops carry it — all of them big mobile workstations. Against the 69 games the catalog tracks, it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 52. This guide covers where the chip ranks among laptop CPUs, what its 20 cores bring, and which machines put it to work.

Where the Core i7-13850HX sits in 2026

A catalog score of 65.1 places the chip 122nd of 741 scored laptop CPUs — inside the top sixth of the table. The neighborhood mixes classes: the Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 (65.4), Ryzen 7 PRO 7730U (65.2) and Ryzen 5 PRO 5675U (65.1) just above, with the older flagship Core i9-9980HK (65.1), the thin-and-light Core i5-1235U (65) and the Core i7-10870H (65) just below. What separates this chip from those neighbors is raw multi-core capacity — twenty cores against their four to eight — which the normalized score flattens out.

What the chip brings

Raptor Lake-HX is a 20-core, 28-thread design built on a 7 nm-class process and rated at 55 W: 2.1 GHz base with boosts up to 5.3 GHz on the performance cores. The integrated graphics is Iris Xe with 96 execution units — useful for display duties in a workstation that also carries professional discrete graphics. The only public benchmark recorded for this chip is an overall PassMark of 36,251, a figure several times what mainstream mobile processors achieve and consistent with desktop-replacement class throughput.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 52 of 69 cataloged games, including Forza Horizon 5, Battlefield 5, Alan Wake 2, Counter-Strike 2, Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Black Myth Wukong and Ghost of Tsushima. Fifteen titles sit at the minimum tier — Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Fortnite and Red Dead Redemption 2 among them — and only Starfield and Helldivers 2 ask for more processor than this. These verdicts are CPU-only: with a 20-core HX behind them, real-world frame rates in these laptops depend almost entirely on the discrete GPU and RAM installed alongside.

Laptops that carry it

The five-model roster is entirely workstation-class: HP's ZBook Fury 16 G10 and G11 at $1,126 and $1,408, Dell's Precision 7680 and 7780 at $1,126 and $2,099, and Lenovo's ThinkPad P16 Gen 2 at $901 — machines from 2022 through 2024. The laptops around it typically show a median gaming index of 86, photo and design capability of 89, a performance index of about 77, engineering and modeling indices of 62, and office comfort at a perfect 100 — with portability around 25, the honest price of desktop-replacement hardware.

Bottom line

The Core i7-13850HX is a compute engine for buyers who need workstation throughput — CAD, rendering, heavy compilation — in a laptop, with 52 of 69 games at recommended CPU settings as a side benefit. The $900–$2,100 machines carrying it are serious investments with serious cooling, and the chip itself is rarely the component that limits anything you run. Mobility is the trade-off: at a portability median of about 25, these are desks-first laptops that travel occasionally.