Intel Core i5-13500 vs Intel Core i7-13700H

Core i5-13500 vs Core i7-13700H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13700H is faster than the Core i5-13500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13500 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700H. Despite this, the Core i7-13700H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-13700H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i5-13500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.