Intel Core i5-13500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Core i5-13500 vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500 beats the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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 7800X3D that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13500. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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.