Intel Core i5-11600 vs Intel Core i9-13900H

Core i5-11600 vs Core i9-13900H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-11600 performs better than the Core i9-13900H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-13900H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-13900H has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i5-11600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13900H. Despite this, the Core i9-13900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-13900H has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600. The Core i9-13900H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-11600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.