Intel Core i5-13600K vs Intel Core i9-13900

Core i5-13600K vs Core i9-13900 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13600K is faster than the Core i9-13900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-13900 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-13900 has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i5-13600K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13900. Despite this, the Core i9-13900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-13900 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13600K. The Core i9-13900 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 i5-13600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.