AMD Ryzen 9 4900HS vs Intel Core i5-13500H

Ryzen 9 4900HS vs Core i5-13500H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 4900HS performs better than the Core i5-13500H. Despite this, the Core i5-13500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500H has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 4900HS has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 4900HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500H. Despite this, the Core i5-13500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13500H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 4900HS. The Core i5-13500H 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 9 4900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.