AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Intel Core i5-13500

Ryzen 9 6900HS vs Core i5-13500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13500 is faster than the Ryzen 9 6900HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 6900HS in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500 has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 6900HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 6900HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. 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 6900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.