Intel Core i9-10900 vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Core i9-10900 vs Core i5-13500H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500H beats the Core i9-10900 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10900 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500H has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-10900 has 10 cores. Despite this, the Core i9-10900 has more threads than the Core i5-13500H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500H. Also, the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13500H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10900. Despite this, the Core i9-10900 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13500H.

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 i9-10900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.