Intel Core i7-11850H vs Intel Core i5-13500

Core i7-11850H vs Core i5-13500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500 beats the Core i7-11850H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11850H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13500 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-11850H. Indeed, the Core i5-13500 has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-11850H. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11850H. In terms of clock speed, the Core i7-11850H and Core i5-13500 are identical in this regard. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-11850H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.