Intel Core i9-11900KF vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Core i9-11900KF vs Core i5-13500H benchmarks

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

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-11900KF has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500H. Also, the Core i9-11900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13500H has more L2 cache than the Core i9-11900KF. The Core i5-13500H also has slightly 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 i9-11900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.