Intel Core i5-13500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Core i5-13500 vs Ryzen 5 7600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500 beats the Ryzen 5 7600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500. The Ryzen 5 7600 also has slightly more 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.