AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Ryzen 5 5500 vs Core i5-13420H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500 is faster than the Core i5-13420H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13420H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13420H has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500 that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13420H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500 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 5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.