Intel Core i7-6950X vs Intel CoreT i5-13500H

Compare Intel Core X-series 10 core CPU vs Intel 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5504 points
0.36% slightly better overall score
5484 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6279 points
7612 points
21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5261 points
8% slightly better multitasking score
4871 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5214 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score
4789 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.36 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
174.64 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
12
20% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
25% slightly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
9 MiB
259% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB
38% slightly more L3 cache
18 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

293rd of 1,089
295th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-6950X vs CoreT i5-13500H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6950X performs better than the CoreT i5-13500H. Despite this, the CoreT i5-13500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the CoreT i5-13500H has slightly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-6950X that has 10 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-6950X has more threads than the CoreT i5-13500H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the CoreT i5-13500H. The info from our database shows that the CoreT i5-13500H has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6950X. Despite this, the Core i7-6950X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the CoreT i5-13500H.

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 i7-6950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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