Intel Core i9-10980HK vs Intel Core i5-13500HX

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs Intel 14 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

5234 points

7843 points

49% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6654 points

9212 points

38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4782 points

7473 points

56% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4670 points

7441 points

59% significantly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9027 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

8216 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

122.88 points

219.22 points

78% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11641 points

19176 points

64% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

2.5 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

4.7 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

11.5 MiB

475% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

321st of 1,089

152nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i9

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-10980HK vs Core i5-13500HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500HX is faster than the Core i9-10980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-10980HK has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i9-10980HK has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10980HK. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13500HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10980HK. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10980HK. The Core i5-13500HX also has significantly 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.