Intel Core i5-13500HX vs Intel Core i9-9900KS

Core i5-13500HX vs Core i9-9900KS comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500HX is faster than the Core i9-9900KS. Despite this, the Core i9-9900KS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i9-9900KS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900KS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-9900KS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500HX. Also, the Core i9-9900KS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900KS. The Core i5-13500HX 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 i5-13500HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.