AMD Ryzen 7 7730U vs Intel Core i5-13500HX

Ryzen 7 7730U vs Core i5-13500HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500HX beats the Ryzen 7 7730U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7730U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7730U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7730U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-13500HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 7730U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7730U. The Core i5-13500HX also has significantly 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 7730U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.