AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs Intel Core i5-13500HX

Ryzen 7 3700X vs Core i5-13500HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3700X beats the Core i5-13500HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13500HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 3700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 3700X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500HX. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13500HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3700X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13500HX.

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 7 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.