Intel Core i5-13500 vs Intel Xeon Platinum 8170M

Core i5-13500 vs Xeon Platinum 8170M comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13500 performs better than the Xeon Platinum 8170M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Platinum 8170M in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more cores than the Core i5-13500. Indeed, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has 26 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i5-13500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Platinum 8170M. In terms of cache, the Xeon Platinum 8170M has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13500. The Xeon Platinum 8170M 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.