Intel Core i5-13500HX vs AMD Ryzen 5 8400F

Core i5-13500HX vs Ryzen 5 8400F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500HX is faster than the Ryzen 5 8400F. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8400F 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 Ryzen 5 8400F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8400F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500HX. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 8400F. The Core i5-13500HX also has significantly 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 i5-13500HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.