Intel Core i5-13500H vs Intel Core i5-13500HX

Core i5-13500H vs Core i5-13500HX specs and performance

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

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13500HX has slightly more cores than the Core i5-13500H. Indeed, the Core i5-13500HX has 14 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Core i5-13500H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13500H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500HX. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13500HX has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500H. The Core i5-13500HX also has slightly 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 i5-13500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.