AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs Intel Core i5-13600K

Ryzen 5 5500 vs Core i5-13600K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13600K beats the Ryzen 5 5500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13600K has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500. Indeed, the Core i5-13600K has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13600K. Despite this, the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-13600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13600K has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500. The Core i5-13600K also has significantly 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 Ryzen 5 5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.