Intel Core i5-13500 vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285H

Core i5-13500 vs Core Ultra 9 285H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500 beats the Core Ultra 9 285H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 9 285H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 9 285H has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-13500 that has 14 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-13500 has more threads than the Core Ultra 9 285H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core Ultra 9 285H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. Also, the Core Ultra 9 285H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 9 285H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.