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

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i5-13500HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X 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 5800X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500HX. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X 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 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.