Intel Core i5-13500 vs Intel Core i7-13850HX

Core i5-13500 vs Core i7-13850HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500 is faster than the Core i7-13850HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-13850HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13850HX has many more cores with 20 cores whereas the Core i5-13500 has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13850HX. Despite this, the Core i7-13850HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-13850HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500. The Core i7-13850HX also has slightly more 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.