AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Intel Core i5-13500HX

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Core i5-13500HX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500HX is faster than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Indeed, the Core i5-13500HX has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5900HX. 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 i5-13500HX. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13500HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HX. The Core i5-13500HX 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.