AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Intel Core i5-13500

Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Core i5-13500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500 beats the Ryzen 9 6900HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 6900HX 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 6900HX has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 6900HX. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500. Also, the Ryzen 9 6900HX 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.