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

Core i9-11900F vs Core i5-13500HX comparison

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

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more cores than the Core i9-11900F. Indeed, the Core i5-13500HX 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 i5-13500HX have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-11900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-11900F. The Core i5-13500HX 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.