Core i9-10980HK vs Core i5-13500H comparison
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10980HK performs better than the Core i5-13500H. Despite this, the Core i5-13500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13500H has significantly more cores than the Core i9-10980HK. Indeed, the Core i5-13500H has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-10980HK. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13500H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13500H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10980HK. The Core i5-13500H also has slightly more L3 cache.
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 i9-10980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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