Intel Core i5-13420H vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i5 8 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5252 points
5% slightly better overall score
4985 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7672 points
17% slightly better gaming score
6530 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4530 points
0.76% slightly better multitasking score
4496 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4376 points
0.51% slightly better heavy workload score
4354 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

120.41 points
37% slightly higher Blender score
87.35 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.20 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

7 MiB
133% significantly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

316th of 1,089
350th of 1,089

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i5
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5200
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-13420H vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition beats the Core i5-13420H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13420H has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Indeed, the Core i5-13420H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13420H. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13420H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The Core i5-13420H 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 i5-13420H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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