Intel Core i5-13500 vs Intel Core i5-13600HX

Core i5-13500 vs Core i5-13600HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500 is faster than the Core i5-13600HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13600HX in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13600HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13600HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13500. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i5-13500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.