Intel Core i5-13500 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Core i5-13500 vs Ryzen 9 9950X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D 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 Ryzen 9 9950X3D has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-13500 that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. Also, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13500. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D 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.