Intel Core i5-14400 vs Intel Core i5-13500T

Core i5-14400 vs Core i5-13500T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500T beats the Core i5-14400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-14400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13500T has slightly more cores than the Core i5-14400. Indeed, the Core i5-13500T has 14 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i5-14400. It also has more threads than the Core i5-14400. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-14400 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500T. Also, the Core i5-14400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13500T has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-14400. The Core i5-13500T also has slightly 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 i5-14400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.