AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i5-13500

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i5-13500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500 beats the Ryzen 5 5600G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600G in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600G that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500. Despite this, the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13500 has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600G. The Core i5-13500 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 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.