AMD EPYC 74F3 vs Intel CoreT i5-13500H

EPYC 74F3 vs CoreT i5-13500H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the EPYC 74F3 performs better than the CoreT i5-13500H. Despite this, the CoreT i5-13500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the CoreT i5-13500H has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the EPYC 74F3 has 9 cores. Despite this, the EPYC 74F3 has more threads than the CoreT i5-13500H. Our comparison shows that the EPYC 74F3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the CoreT i5-13500H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the CoreT i5-13500H has significantly more L2 cache than the EPYC 74F3. Despite this, the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the CoreT i5-13500H.

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 EPYC 74F3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.