Intel's 13th-gen laptop CPUs offer up to 24 cores

The power of Intel's 13th-gen desktop CPUs is coming to laptops. The Core i9-13980HX was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show. There are 24 cores and a boost speed of 5.6 GHz. The continuation of the high performance HX line is a way to bring more power to beefier laptops. According to the company, the new Core i9 is 11 percent faster than last year's top-end 12900HK when it comes to single-threaded tasks, and 49 percent faster for multi-threaded work.

The Core i5-13450HX has 10 cores and up to 4.5 GHz boost speeds. If you want more performance and don't mind a hit to battery life, you should buy an HX chip. The rest of the 13th-gen lineup is noteworthy. The P series chips are meant for performance ultraportables and have up to 14 cores.

The performance gains seemed negligible for most tasks, while the battery life hit was massive, and we weren't too impressed with Intel's previous P-series CPUs. Intel has a new lineup. The company claims that some 13th-gen chips will offer VPU, which can help reduce the amount of background blur during video calls. The lack of a VPU was one of the major drawbacks of the Intel-equipped Surface Pro 9 and it will be nice to see some sort of artificial intelligence acceleration this year.

The new chips are low-end. The new N-series chips are called Intel Processor and Intel Core i3. The chips are mainly focused on education and other entry level computing markets. The new quad-core N200 chip from Intel offers 28 percent better application performance and 64 percent faster graphics than the previous-gen N6000. Adding an additional 42 percent in application performance and 56 percent faster graphics to the 8-core i3 N-305 increases it's performance even more. Kids and other users who don't need a lot of power can benefit from better low-end chips.

At the Consumer Electronics Show, Intel showed off its 13th-gen desktopCPU lineup. The K series chips will only go up to 5.6 GHz boost speeds instead of 5.8 GHz. They're up to 34 percent faster when it comes to multi-threaded tasks. The 13th-gen desktop chips will be compatible with 600 and 700-series motherboards, and they'll work with eitherDDR5 orDDR4 memory, making them decent upgrade for modern Intel systems.