Intel Core i5-13500H vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800U

Core i5-13500H vs Ryzen 7 6800U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 6800U beats the Core i5-13500H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 6800U that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 6800U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500H. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13500H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 6800U. The Core i5-13500H also has slightly 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 i5-13500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.