Intel Core i5-13500 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

Core i5-13500 vs Ryzen 9 7940HS comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500 is faster than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7940HS in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13500 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. Indeed, the Core i5-13500 has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 7940HS. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500. Also, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13500. Despite this, the Core i5-13500 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HS.

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.