AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs Intel Core i5-13500

Ryzen 9 3950X vs Core i5-13500 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500 is faster than the Ryzen 9 3950X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3950X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 3950X has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i5-13500 has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. Despite this, the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13500. The Ryzen 9 3950X 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 9 3950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.