AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i5-13600KF

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i5-13600KF comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13600KF is faster than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13600KF has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 5900X has 12 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X has more threads than the Core i5-13600KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13600KF. Despite this, the Core i5-13600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-13600KF CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13600KF has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13600KF.

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 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.