AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs Intel Core i9-13900H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i9 14 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

5931 points
7077 points
19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7969 points
9022 points
13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5267 points
6522 points
23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5102 points
6425 points
25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5451 points
8124 points
49% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.88 points
200.38 points
41% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
14
133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5.4 GHz
28% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

256th of 1,089
187th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
13th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 5500 vs Core i9-13900H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500 is faster than the Core i9-13900H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-13900H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-13900H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500. Indeed, the Core i9-13900H has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13900H. Despite this, the Core i9-13900H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-13900H has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500. The Core i9-13900H also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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