Intel Core i9-11980HK vs Intel Core i5-13500HX

Core i9-11980HK vs Core i5-13500HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500HX is faster than the Core i9-11980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11980HK in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Core i9-11980HK has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11980HK. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-11980HK has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500HX. Also, the Core i9-11980HK 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 i9-11980HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.