Intel Core i5-13500HX vs AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

Core i5-13500HX vs Ryzen 5 8600G benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500HX is faster than the Ryzen 5 8600G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8600G 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 8600G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8600G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8600G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500HX. Also, the Ryzen 5 8600G 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 Ryzen 5 8600G. The Core i5-13500HX 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 i5-13500HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.