Intel Core i5-13500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700F

Core i5-13500 vs Ryzen 7 8700F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500 is faster than the Ryzen 7 8700F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8700F 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 8700F that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8700F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. Also, the Ryzen 7 8700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 8700F has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500. Despite this, the Core i5-13500 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 8700F.

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.