AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i7-13700HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i7 16 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

6410 points

9598 points

49% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

11005 points

26% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

9186 points

62% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points

9129 points

66% significantly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5675 points

8926 points

57% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

252.94 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11838 points

22598 points

90% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

76% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

14 MiB

366% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

6% slightly more L3 cache

30 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

97th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

13th Generation Core i7

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

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Core i7-13700HX comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-13700HX performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13700HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600X has 6 cores. 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 i7-13700HX. Despite this, the Core i7-13700HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-13700HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-13700HX.

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.