Intel Core i9-9900KF vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Core i9-9900KF vs Core i5-13500H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-9900KF performs better than the Core i5-13500H. Despite this, the Core i5-13500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-9900KF has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-9900KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500H. Also, the Core i9-9900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13500H has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900KF. The Core i5-13500H also has slightly 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 i9-9900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.