AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-13420H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13420H beats the Ryzen 5 5500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13420H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 5 5500U and Core i5-13420H are identical in this regard. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13420H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500U. The Core i5-13420H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.