Core i7-13620H: CPU benchmarks and laptop guide

The Intel Core i7-13620H is the volume Raptor Lake-H part of the 2023 generation — a 10-core design that became the default processor of affordable gaming laptops and mainstream machines alike. The catalog matches it to 56 models, and it meets the recommended CPU requirement in 47 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 i7-13620H sits in 2026

A catalog score of 57.1 places the chip 200th of 741 scored laptop CPUs — the upper-middle of a table that spans two decades of silicon. The neighborhood is a spread of eras: the Core i7-8559U (57.4), Core i7-12800H (57.4) and Ryzen 5 5500U (57.2) just above, the sibling Core i5-13600H (57), Core i7-8750H (56.9) and Ryzen 7 7435HS (56.6) just below. Edging its own Core i5 stablemate while sitting a hair under a much older i7-12800H tells the story: this is solid mid-tier silicon, and the i7 badge buys cores rather than leaderboard position.

What the chip brings

Raptor Lake-H is a 10-core, 16-thread design on a 7 nm-class process, rated at 45 W in its H-class configuration: a 2.4 GHz base clock and up to 4.9 GHz boost. The integrated Intel Iris Xe Graphics G7 with 96 execution units keeps machines usable when no discrete GPU is present. Memory support and cache details were not captured for this chip, so the table above sticks to what the catalog verifiably holds: a PassMark overall score of 23,349.

Games: CPU-side readiness

Measured purely as a processor, the chip clears the recommended CPU tier for 47 of 69 cataloged games — including Metro Exodus, PUBG: Battlegrounds, Returnal, Black Myth Wukong, Ghost of Tsushima, The Last of Us Part 1, Dead Space Remake, Dying Light 2 and Far Cry 5, down to Civilization 6 and Overwatch at the lighter end. Another 20 sit at the minimum tier: Cyberpunk 2077, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, Fortnite, Counter-Strike 2 and Alan Wake 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, which is exactly where the budget gaming machines carrying this chip differ from their pricier siblings.

Laptops that carry it

The 56-model roster is dominated by 2025 budget gaming and everyday laptops. The gaming cluster runs at $1,440 across the board — ASUS TUF Gaming F16, Acer Nitro Lite 16, Nitro V 15, Gigabyte A16 and A18, HP Victus 15 — with HP's 2024 OMEN 16 pair at $1,424 and $1,280. Everyday machines cluster at $765: the ASUS Vivobook S14, Acer Aspire Go 15 and Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 3i, with the IdeaPad Slim 3 14-inch ultrabook at $1,232. Roster medians describe the fleet honestly: office comfort at a perfect 100, energy efficiency at 85.7, a gaming index of 67 and performance index of 71.5 — while portability at 38.2 says most of these are full-size chassis.

Bottom line

The Core i7-13620H fits the practical buyer: recommended-tier CPU readiness for 47 of 69 tracked games, an iGPU that holds its own in everyday use, and a roster of 56 machines where the same $1,440 gets you a TUF, a Nitro or a Victus. The rank window — from the Ryzen 5 5500U to the Core i7-8750H — says the chip itself is mid-tier, so spend your comparison effort on the GPU, display and price of the specific laptop rather than the processor badge.