Intel Core i9-13950HX vs Intel Core i5-13500HX

Core i9-13950HX vs Core i5-13500HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13950HX beats the Core i5-13500HX in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13500HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i5-13500HX that has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500HX. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-13500HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13950HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-13950HX has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500HX. The Core i9-13950HX 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 i9-13950HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.