AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i5-13500

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i5-13500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900X beats the Core i5-13500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500 has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X that has 12 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X has more threads than the Core i5-13500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 5900X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13500. The Ryzen 9 5900X 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 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.