Intel Core i5-13500H vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Core i5-13500H vs Ryzen 9 8940HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500H beats the Ryzen 9 8940HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX 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 9 8940HX that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500H. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13500H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. The Core i5-13500H also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-13500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.