Intel Core i5-13500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7730U

Core i5-13500 vs Ryzen 7 7730U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500 beats the Ryzen 7 7730U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7730U 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 7730U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7730U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 7730U. Also, 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.

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.