Intel Core i5-8400 vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Core i5-8400 vs Core i5-13500H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13500H performs better than the Core i5-8400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-8400 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8400. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500H. Despite this, the Core i5-13500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13500H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8400. The Core i5-13500H 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. For instance, the Core i5-8400 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.