Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Core i5-11500 vs Core i5-13420H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11500 beats the Core i5-13420H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13420H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13420H has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-11500 that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13420H. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-11500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.