AMD Ryzen 9 8945H vs Intel Core i5-13500T

Compare AMD 8 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8895 points

8912 points

0.19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10846 points

2% slightly better gaming score

10575 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8278 points

8418 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8127 points

8343 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

224.72 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

170.27 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.00 GHz

150% significantly higher clock speed

1.6 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

11.5 MiB

43% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

121st of 1,118

119th of 1,118

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 8945H vs Core i5-13500T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13500T beats the Ryzen 9 8945H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13500T has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 8945H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8945H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13500T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13500T has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 8945H. The Core i5-13500T 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 8945H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.