AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i5-13450HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 10 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

6413 points
8283 points
29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8715 points
10710 points
22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5671 points
7509 points
32% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5491 points
7317 points
33% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points
192.97 points
24% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
54% significantly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
Identical
4.6 GHz

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
Identical
20

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
Identical
128 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
9.5 MiB
216% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
60% significantly more L3 cache
20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089
135th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Core i5-13450HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13450HX is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13450HX has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13450HX. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13450HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13450HX.

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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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