Intel Core i9-10980HK vs Intel CoreT i5-13500H

Core i9-10980HK vs CoreT i5-13500H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the CoreT i5-13500H is faster than the Core i9-10980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10980HK in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the CoreT i5-13500H has significantly more cores than the Core i9-10980HK. Indeed, the CoreT i5-13500H has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-10980HK. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the CoreT i5-13500H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10980HK. The info from our database shows that the CoreT i5-13500H has more L2 cache than the Core i9-10980HK. The CoreT 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.