AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i5-13500HX

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i5-13500HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500HX beats the Ryzen 5 5600G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Indeed, the Core i5-13500HX has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600G. 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 i5-13500HX. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600G. The Core i5-13500HX 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 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.