Intel Core i5-13500 vs AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H

Core i5-13500 vs Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500 beats the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. Also, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 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.

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.