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

Ryzen 9 8945HS vs Core i5-13500T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HS beats the Core i5-13500T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13500T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-13500T has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8945HS. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13500T. Also, the Ryzen 9 8945HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13500T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HS. The Core i5-13500T 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 8945HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.