Intel Core i5-13500H vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i5 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6478 points
11% slightly better overall score
5821 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8783 points
21% slightly better gaming score
7228 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5800 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
5452 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5655 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score
5384 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

166.36 points
166.92 points
0.34% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
49% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3.30 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.1 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

9 MiB
12% slightly more L2 cache
8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

222nd of 1,089
266th of 1,089

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5200
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-13500H vs Ryzen 7 8840HS comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500H beats the Ryzen 7 8840HS in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8840HS in all gaming tests too.

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 8840HS that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13500H has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 8840HS. 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.

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