Intel Core i5-13500HX vs Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Compare Intel 14 core CPU vs Intel 16 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

7843 points
12% slightly better overall score
6976 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9212 points
9640 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7473 points
20% slightly better multitasking score
6199 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7441 points
23% slightly better heavy workload score
6011 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

219.22 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
193.42 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
16
14% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
22
10% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
78% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
28
40% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
33% slightly more supported memory
96 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

11.5 MiB
18 MiB
56% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
Identical
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

152nd of 1,089
196th of 1,089

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i5
Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5-7467

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Core i5-13500HX vs Core Ultra 7 165H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 165H is faster than the Core i5-13500HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13500HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core Ultra 7 165H has slightly more cores than the Core i5-13500HX. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 165H has 16 cores compared to 14 cores found in the Core i5-13500HX. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500HX. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13500HX has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 165H. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 7 165H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500HX. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i5-13500HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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