Intel Core i5-13500 vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i5-13500 vs Ryzen 9 8940HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500 beats the Ryzen 9 8940HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has slightly more cores than the Core i5-13500. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8940HX 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 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i5-13500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-13500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.