Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i5-13500

Core i5-11500 vs Core i5-13500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500 beats the Core i5-11500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13500 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-11500. Indeed, the Core i5-13500 has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11500. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. Despite this, the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher turbo speed.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-11500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.