Intel Core i5-13500 vs Intel Core i9-13980HX

Core i5-13500 vs Core i9-13980HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13980HX beats the Core i5-13500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i9-13980HX has 5 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-13980HX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13980HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13980HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-13980HX has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500. The Core i9-13980HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.