AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Core i5-13420H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2600X is faster than the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13420H has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 2600X. Indeed, the Core i5-13420H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 2600X. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 2600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13420H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 2600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2600X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13420H.

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 Ryzen 5 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.