Intel Core i5-13500 vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Core i5-13500 vs Ryzen 9 5900XT comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5900XT performs better than the Core i5-13500. Despite this, the Core i5-13500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has slightly more cores than the Core i5-13500. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i5-13500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500. The Ryzen 9 5900XT 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.