AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i5-13600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 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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Intel Core i5-13600K

Price

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$ 219.80

$ 79.59 significantly less expensive

$ 299.39

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points

12139 points

54% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points

14231 points

50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points

11472 points

56% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points

11341 points

58% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7634 points

10325 points

35% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points

308.32 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15711 points

24268 points

54% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10085 points

14478 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2119 points

2652 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points

14998 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points

2681 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.8 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

5.1 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

19% slightly lower TDP

125 W

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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

640 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

151st of 1,089

48th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2022 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i5-13600K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13600K is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13600K. Despite this, the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-13600K CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 5800X also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.