AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i5-13500H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500H beats the Ryzen 7 5800X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X that has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500H. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13500H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13500H.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.