Intel Core i9-11950H vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Core i9-11950H vs Core i5-13500H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-11950H is faster than the Core i5-13500H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13500H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i9-11950H that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i9-11950H and Core i5-13500H are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i9-11950H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.