Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Core i5-13500 benchmarks
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13500 performs better than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900HX in all gaming tests too.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500 has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HX that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. Despite this, the Core i5-13500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i5-13500 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 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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