Intel Core i9-9900 vs Intel Core i5-13500HX

Core i9-9900 vs Core i5-13500HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900 beats the Core i5-13500HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13500HX in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more cores than the Core i9-9900. Indeed, the Core i5-13500HX has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i9-9900. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500HX. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-9900. The Core i5-13500HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-9900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.