Intel Core i7-8665U vs Intel Core i5-13500

Core i7-8665U vs Core i5-13500 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500 is faster than the Core i7-8665U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8665U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i7-8665U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8665U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8665U. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed.

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 i7-8665U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.