Intel Core i9-8950HK vs Intel Core i5-13500

Core i9-8950HK vs Core i5-13500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500 beats the Core i9-8950HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-8950HK in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13500 has significantly more cores than the Core i9-8950HK. Indeed, the Core i5-13500 has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i9-8950HK. It also has more threads than the Core i9-8950HK. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13500 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-8950HK. The Core i5-13500 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 i9-8950HK has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.