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

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

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500HX beats the Core i9-11950H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-11950H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more cores than the Core i9-11950H. Indeed, the Core i5-13500HX has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-11950H. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11950H. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500HX.

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.