Intel Core i5-13500 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Core i5-13500 vs Ryzen 9 7900 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900 beats the Core i5-13500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500 has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 7900 that has 12 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900 has more threads than the Core i5-13500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500. The Ryzen 9 7900 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.