Ryzen 9 5980HX vs Core i5-13500 specs and performance
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500 is faster than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5980HX 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 5980HX that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 5980HX. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-13500 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 5980HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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