Intel Core i9-11900F vs Intel Core i5-13500

Core i9-11900F vs Core i5-13500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500 beats the Core i9-11900F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11900F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13500 has significantly more cores than the Core i9-11900F. Indeed, the Core i5-13500 has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11900F. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900F. Both the Core i9-11900F and Core i5-13500 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-11900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-13500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i9-11900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.