Intel Core i5-13500 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i5 14 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9936 points
42% slightly better overall score
6976 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12084 points
25% slightly better gaming score
9640 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9267 points
49% significantly better multitasking score
6199 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9125 points
51% significantly better heavy workload score
6011 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

255.79 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
193.42 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
16
14% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
22
10% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
78% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
28
40% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
33% slightly more supported memory
96 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
18 MiB
350% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
Identical
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

93rd of 1,089
196th of 1,089

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i5
Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5-7467

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Core i5-13500 vs Core Ultra 7 165H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500 is faster than the Core Ultra 7 165H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 7 165H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 165H has slightly more cores with 16 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 significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 165H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more L2 cache than 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.

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