Intel Core i5-13500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i5 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Price

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$ 269.97

$ 195.30

$ 74.67 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9936 points

14% slightly better overall score

8673 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12084 points

12393 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9267 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

7498 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9125 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

7245 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9089 points

19% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

7587 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

255.79 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

233.29 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12160 points

14957 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2419 points

3338 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.9 GHz

56% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5.4 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

6 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB

32 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

93rd of 1,089

118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-13500 vs Ryzen 5 9600X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13500 performs better than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 9600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 9600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13500. The Ryzen 5 9600X also has slightly 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.