Intel Core i7-3770K vs Intel Core i5-13500

Core i7-3770K vs Core i5-13500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500 is faster than the Core i7-3770K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Core i7-3770K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3770K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. Despite this, the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i7-3770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.