Intel CoreT i5-13500H vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Compare Intel 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5484 points
11380 points
107% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7612 points
10581 points
39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4871 points
11723 points
140% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4789 points
11982 points
150% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

174.64 points
538.07 points
208% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

9 MiB
16 MiB
77% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB
64 MiB
255% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

295th of 1,089
61st of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 9000 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

CoreT i5-13500H vs Ryzen 9 9955HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the CoreT i5-13500H is faster than the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 9955HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the CoreT i5-13500H has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the CoreT i5-13500H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the CoreT i5-13500H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 9955HX. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more L2 cache than the CoreT i5-13500H. The Ryzen 9 9955HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the CoreT i5-13500H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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