Intel Core i5-11500H vs Intel Core i3-13100

Core i5-11500H vs Core i3-13100 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-13100 beats the Core i5-11500H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11500H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-11500H has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i3-13100 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-13100. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-13100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11500H. Despite this, the Core i5-11500H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-11500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.