Intel Core i5-13420H vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Core i5-13420H vs Ryzen 5 9600X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 9600X is faster than the Core i5-13420H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13420H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13420H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 9600X has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13420H. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13420H has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13420H.

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 i5-13420H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.