AMD Ryzen 7 5825U vs Intel Core i5-13500

Ryzen 7 5825U vs Core i5-13500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500 is faster than the Ryzen 7 5825U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5825U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5825U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5825U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5825U. Also, the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i5-13500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 5825U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.