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

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Core i5-13500HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500HX beats the Ryzen 5 5600X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X 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 5600X. Indeed, the Core i5-13500HX has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500HX. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13500HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13500HX.

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