Intel Core i5-13500 vs Intel Core 7 150U

Core i5-13500 vs Core 7 150U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500 beats the Core 7 150U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 7 150U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500 has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core 7 150U that has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 7 150U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 150U. Despite this, the Core 7 150U has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core 7 150U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13500. Despite this, the Core i5-13500 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core 7 150U.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-13500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.