Intel Core i5-13500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800U

Core i5-13500 vs Ryzen 7 6800U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13500 performs better than the Ryzen 7 6800U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 6800U 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 7 6800U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 6800U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 6800U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. Despite this, the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-13500 also has significantly 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.