Intel Core i5-11500 vs Intel Core i7-13700

Core i5-11500 vs Core i7-13700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700 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 i7-13700 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-11500. Indeed, the Core i7-13700 has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700. Despite this, the Core i7-13700 has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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.