AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8422 points

30% slightly better overall score

6478 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points

8783 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points

44% significantly better multitasking score

5800 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points

48% significantly better heavy workload score

5655 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8594 points

33% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6443 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points

66% significantly higher Blender score

166.36 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19000 points

16% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

16335 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz

46% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

9 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

255% significantly more L3 cache

18 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 1,089

222nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i5-13500H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3900X beats the Core i5-13500H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 9 3900X has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500H. Despite this, the Core i5-13500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13500H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 3900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3900X 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 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.