Intel Core i5-13500HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840U

Core i5-13500HX vs Ryzen 7 8840U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 8840U 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 8840U has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8840U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8840U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500HX. Also, the Ryzen 7 8840U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13500HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 8840U. 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.