AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Core i5-13400

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 10 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

6179 points
8550 points
38% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7639 points
11151 points
45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5707 points
7733 points
35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5585 points
7540 points
35% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6228 points
7345 points
17% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

160.71 points
196.62 points
22% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

13214 points
15953 points
20% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
Identical
4.6 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
9.5 MiB
137% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
20 MiB
25% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

240th of 1,089
123rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-4800

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Core i5-13400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13400 is faster than the Ryzen 9 5900HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900HS in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13400 has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5900HS has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13400. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13400 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HS. The Core i5-13400 also has slightly 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 5900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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