Intel Core i5-11600K vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Core i5-11600K vs Core i5-13500H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11600K is faster than the Core i5-13500H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13500H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i5-11600K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500H. Also, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13500H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-11600K. The Core i5-13500H 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 i5-11600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.