Intel Core i5-13500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Core i5-13500 vs Ryzen 7 9700X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9700X beats the Core i5-13500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13500 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 9700X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 9700X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13500. The Ryzen 7 9700X also has slightly 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.