Intel Core i5-12500H vs Intel Core i5-13500

Core i5-12500H vs Core i5-13500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500 beats the Core i5-12500H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-12500H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500 has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i5-12500H has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-12500H. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-12500H and Core i5-13500 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-12500H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500. Despite this, the Core i5-13500 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-12500H.

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 i5-12500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.