Core i7-13700HX: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i7-13700HX brought desktop-class Raptor Lake silicon to 2023 gaming laptops — the HX suffix means more cores and a higher power budget than the plain H line. The catalog matches it to 41 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 50 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 i7-13700HX sits in 2026

A catalog score of 62.7 places the chip 137th of 672 scored laptop CPUs — the top fifth of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood: the Ryzen 7 4800U (63.1), Core i7-11390H (63) and Core i5-11320H (63) just above, the Core i5-1230U (62.5), Ryzen 3 PRO 5450U (62.5) and Core i7-12800HX (62.4) just below. Most of the neighborhood is made up of U-class thin-and-light parts — the Ryzen 7 4800U, Core i5-1230U, Ryzen 3 PRO 5450U — which frames the HX trade-off plainly: 16 cores on a 55 W budget, while the normalized score stays in the same band as far leaner chips.

What the chip brings

Raptor Lake-HX is a 16-core, 24-thread design on a 7 nm-class process, rated at 55 W in its HX-class configuration: a 2.1 GHz base and up to 5.0 GHz boost. The integrated Iris Xe Graphics G7 with 96 execution units is present for display duties, though nearly every laptop in this roster pairs the chip with discrete graphics anyway. Memory support details were not captured for this chip, so the table above sticks to what the catalog verifiably holds: a PassMark overall score of 31,742.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 50 of 69 cataloged games — Alan Wake 2 sits right at its recommended threshold, alongside Counter-Strike 2, Star Wars Jedi Survivor, Metro Exodus, PUBG, Ghost of Tsushima, Black Myth Wukong, Returnal and The Last of Us Part 1. Another 17 sit at the minimum tier: Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Fortnite, Hogwarts Legacy and Call of Duty: Warzone 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 in an all-gaming roster like this one the GPU is the whole pricing story.

Laptops that carry it

The 41-model roster is gaming end to end, 2023–2025: OMEN 16 variants from $1,280 to $1,593, the Dell G15 5530 and G16 7630 at $1,236 and $1,232, a Victus 16 at $1,249, a Legion 5 16IRX9 at $1,400 and the 2025 Lenovo LOQ 17IRX10 at $1,440. The Inspiron 16 Plus 7630 at $802 is the accessible entry point. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: a gaming index of 79.5 and performance index of 79.7 with photo and design capability at 99, office comfort at a perfect 100 — but portability at 19.4 and mobility at 33.5, the signature of desktop-replacement machines.

Bottom line

The Core i7-13700HX is the muscle option of this group: 16 cores and 24 threads for multi-threaded work, recommended-CPU readiness for 50 of 69 tracked games, and a deep 41-machine roster with the displayed dozen mostly between $802 and $1,593. The honest costs are size and weight — a portability median of 19.4 means laptops that mostly live on a desk — plus two holdouts, Starfield and Helldivers 2, still above its CPU tier. Buy it for throughput and price-per-core; buy something thinner if it leaves the desk daily.