AMD Ryzen 7 5800U vs Intel Core i5-13420H

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 8 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

5087 points

5252 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6161 points

7672 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4760 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

4530 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4676 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

4376 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.86 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

120.41 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz

2.1 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

7 MiB

75% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

340th of 1,089

316th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 7 5800U vs Core i5-13420H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800U is faster than the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 7 5800U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5800U. Also, the Core i5-13420H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13420H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 5800U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800U has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13420H.

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 5800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.