The Core i5-13500 is Intel’s new $250 providing, packing 14 cores in whole, 20 threads and 35.5 MB cache. That is an attention-grabbing nearly hybrid-like CPU because it packs the bigger L3 cache capability of the Raptor Lake i5’s whereas utilizing the smaller L2 cache of Alder Lake, so it is not merely a locked model of the spectacular 13600K, so we’re very eager to see the way it performs.

The 13500 is an attention-grabbing processor. When in comparison with the 13600K you get the identical 6 P-Cores with Hyper-Threading assist for 12 threads, however the place the 13600K cores clock as excessive as 5.1 GHz, the 13500 is capped to 4.8 GHz.

The massive change is to the P-cores, the place the L2 cache has been downgraded from 2 MB to 1.25 MB, which is similar capability as Alder Lake CPUs, whereas the Okay-SKU Raptor Lake elements all obtained a 2 MB improve which does assist increase efficiency.

The 13500 does retain all 8 E-cores, for a similar core rely because the 13600K and twice that of the 12600K. It is a massive deal as Twelfth-gen locked Core i5’s such because the 12500 did not function any E-cores in any respect, so we’re going from zero to eight in a single technology. Nevertheless, just like the P-cores, the E-cores are receiving the Twelfth-gen cache capability, so not like the 13600K E-cores which pack a 4 MB cache capability per cluster, the 13500 has been downgraded to 2 MB per cluster.

Regardless of these modifications, the L3 cache capability stays 24 MB, the identical because the 13600K and 4 MB greater than what you get with the 12600K and 6 MB greater than the 12500.

At $250 the Core i5-13500 may very well be properly positioned as the most effective worth all rounder for finances oriented builds and its primary competitors right here could be the Ryzen 5 7600.

The 13500 has the benefit of engaged on cheaper B660 boards utilizing DDR4 reminiscence, so we’ll be that together with a DDR5 configuration. For this we’ll be utilizing G.Ability Ripjaws V 32GB DDR4-3600 CL16 reminiscence as it might presently be had for $115, it is a good high quality equipment that gives a pleasant stability of worth to efficiency.

Please word that the locked Intel processors cannot run above 3466 if you wish to use the Gear 1 mode, and ideally you’d need to use Gear 1 because the reminiscence has to run properly above 4000 earlier than Gear 2 can match Gear 1. The explanation for this limitation is because of the System Agent (or SA voltage) which is locked on Non-Okay SKU processors, and this limits the reminiscence controller’s skill to assist excessive frequency reminiscence utilizing Gear 1 mode. That being the case, we have examined the 12100 and 13100 utilizing the Ripjaws reminiscence adjusted to 3466, as that is the optimum configuration for these processors in need of going and manually tuning the sub-timings, which we’re not doing for this evaluation.

The important thing competitor for the Core i5-13500 is the Ryzen 5 7600, so this would be the comparability we deal with. Nevertheless, we have additionally included different processors for reference, however please word the info is not at all times an apples to apples comparability when it comes to reminiscence configurations. The AM4 processors had been examined utilizing DDR4-3200 CL14 reminiscence (previously now we have discovered this similar to DDR4-3600 CL16), however we nonetheless needed to level out that distinction. Let’s get into the info…

Clock Speeds

Here is a take a look at how the Core i5-13500 operates utilizing the provided field cooler, which we can’t be utilizing for our testing as it is not superb and you need to undoubtedly change it when shopping for this processor, an inexpensive $20 tower fashion cooler will do the trick.

With the field cooler put in thermal throttling kicked in after roughly 25 seconds. Initially the 13500 P-cores ran at 4.5 GHz with the E-cores at 3.5 GHz, after an hour the P-cores had been operating at 4.2 GHz and the E-cores at 3.4 GHz, so a 7% discount on the P-cores and only a 3% drop for the E-cores.

These aren’t large efficiency dips nevertheless it’s price noting that the core temperature ran at 92c with a CPU package deal energy of 100c, and that is whereas throttling.

In order ordinary we ditched the horrible field cooler for the testing, and as a substitute used the be quiet! Pure Loop 2 FX 360mm AIO. With the liquid cooler the i5-13500 maintained a P-core frequency of 4.5 GHz and an E-core frequency of three.5 GHz, so after an hour of load we noticed no dip within the clock speeds and that is as a result of the 13500 ran at simply 62c, which is properly beneath the thermal threshold.

Software Benchmarks

Beginning with Cinebench R23 multi-core outcomes we see that the Core i5-13500 may be very spectacular for core-heavy productiveness workloads that may make the most of the E-cores properly.

When in comparison with the Ryzen 7600, we’re a 44% improve in efficiency, a large achieve that sees the locked Core i5 even outpacing the 7700X. It was additionally simply 12% slower than the 13600K and that distinction on this check is only all the way down to clock pace as cache performs a really small function right here.

The one core efficiency is much like the Ryzen 7600 and barely lower than the 12600K for the easy incontrovertible fact that the Twelfth-gen half clocks barely increased. Nonetheless, when in comparison with the 13600K we’re speaking a couple of small 6% discount in efficiency.

The 7-Zip compression outcomes are closely influenced by reminiscence efficiency. The Core i5-13500 utilizing an optimum DDR4 configuration is barely ~10% sooner than the 5600X and 16% slower than the 7600. Nevertheless, when armed with DDR5 reminiscence the 13500 is 14% sooner than the 7600, although it did nonetheless path the 13600K by a 14% margin. Nonetheless, total superb efficiency for the worth.

DRAM efficiency has nearly no affect on decompression efficiency, so right here the 13500 does properly utilizing both DDR4 or DDR5 reminiscence, delivering comparable efficiency to the 5800X, making it as much as 10% sooner than the 7600.

The Blender Open Data outcomes are very spectacular, right here the E-cores are working properly and consequently we’re Ryzen 7 7700-like efficiency, making the 13500 no less than 28% sooner than the 7600 and simply 12% slower than the 13600K.

It is a related story within the Corona benchmark, right here the Core i5-13500 is 13% slower than the 13600K, however 37% sooner than the 7600, and efficiency was a lot the identical utilizing both DDR4 or DDR5 reminiscence.

Subsequent up now we have Premiere Professional 2022, and right here we see when utilizing DDR4 reminiscence that the 13500 is slower than the Ryzen 5800X, in addition to the 7600, trailing by a 9% margin.

However when paired with DDR5 reminiscence the locked Core i5 enjoys a large 21% efficiency bump, permitting it to beat the 7600 by an 11% margin to come back in simply 4% slower than the 13600K.

We’re additionally seeing stable efficiency positive factors when upgrading from DDR4 to DDR5 in Photoshop, with DDR5 offering an extra 17% efficiency. Even so the E-cores are nearly ineffective on this frivolously threaded utility, that means the Ryzen 7600 continues to be barely sooner right here.

In Adobe After Results the Core i5-13500 managed to beat the Ryzen 7600, even when utilizing DDR4 reminiscence, although efficiency was nearly similar. Armed with DDR5 although the 13500 was 9% sooner than the 7600 and only a % slower than the 13600K.

The final productiveness benchmark now we have is code compilation and right here the Core i5-13500 once more carried out very properly, trailing the 13600K by a mere 3% margin or 9% when utilizing DDR4 reminiscence. Both configuration noticed it beat the 7600 and it was 17% sooner when utilizing DDR5.

Gaming Benchmarks

Time for some gaming benchmarks and we’ll begin with Factorio. Right here the Core i5-13500 carried out a lot the identical utilizing both DDR4 or DDR5 reminiscence and when utilizing DDR5 it was simply 3% slower than the Ryzen 7600 and simply 5% slower than the i5-13600K. General an important consequence for the locked Core i5 half.

We will deal with the 1080p knowledge however we’ll present you the 1440p common knowledge as properly for the ten video games we examined.

In Watch Canine Legion, we see that the i5-13500 carried out significantly better utilizing DDR5 reminiscence, delivering nearly 20% larger efficiency. When restricted to DDR4 we’re related efficiency to the Ryzen 5800X, however with DDR5 the 13500 was capable of match the 7600, making it 9% slower than the 13600K.

The Rainbow Six Extraction outcomes are very attention-grabbing as right here the 13500 seems to battle fairly a bit, although the outcomes make sense. The E-cores are after all ineffective right here, so on the subject of gaming efficiency the Core i5-13500 goes to be much like the 12600K, it is clocked barely decrease, nevertheless it packs 20% extra L3 cache.

We see that when armed with the identical DDR5 reminiscence that the 13500 is 5% sooner than the 12600K, however 14% slower than the 13600K and a large 23% slower than the 7600. The Zen 4 processors carry out very properly on this title, although to be honest the 1% lows for the 13600K and 7600 are comparable.

The Hitman 3 efficiency, whereas superb total, is a bit lackluster when in comparison with the Ryzen 7600, which matched the 13600K, no less than for the typical body charge. Once more, DDR5 supplied the most effective outcomes, boosting the typical body charge by 13% to 205 fps, the identical efficiency delivered by the 5800X3D, and this noticed the 13500 trailing the 7600 by an 8% margin.

The Core i5-13500 managed 110 fps in Spider-Man Remastered when utilizing DDR5 and 99 fps with DDR4 making the DDR5 configuration 11% sooner.

That additionally meant that the 13500 was simply 4% slower than the 7600 and seven% slower than the 13600K which it beat the 12600K by a 7% margin, so total stable efficiency and proper the place we might count on this half to land.

Right here we’re a reasonably substantial 20% efficiency uplift for the Core i5-13500 utilizing DDR5 against DDR4, pumping out 228 fps to make it 5% slower than the Ryzen 7600 and 10% slower than the 13600K. So once more the place we might count on it to be given the specs, round 7% sooner than the 12600K.

Like Rainbow Six Extraction, Horizon Zero Daybreak closely favors Zen 4 CPUs, and on this occasion fairly closely. DDR5 reminiscence additionally would not assist the 13500 right here and though it was simply 8% slower than the 13600K, that made it a large 26% slower than the 7600.

The advantages of DDR5 reminiscence are additionally obvious in Cyberpunk 2077 the place the Core i5-13500 is as much as 22% sooner because of the extra bandwidth. Even so with 181 fps on common that meant it was barely slower than the Ryzen 7600, only a 4% margin on this instance.

ACC advantages extra from L3 cache efficiency than it does DRAM efficiency, besides DDR5 is providing a light 5% leap for the 13500, which noticed it are available 10% slower than the 13600K and seven% slower than the 7600.

In The Riftbreaker the 13500 outperforms the 7600, delivering 8% larger efficiency when armed with DDR5 reminiscence. That additionally made it simply 5% slower than the 13600K, an important consequence for Intel’s new locked Core i5 processor.

Final up now we have Counter-Strike: World Offensive and that is one other title the place AMD Zen 4 processors carry out very well. With 414 fps on common, the i5-13500 was 11% sooner than the 12600K, simply 6% slower than the 13600K and 11% slower than the Ryzen 7600. consequence relative to the 13600K, however a weaker than typical consequence in comparison with the mainstream Ryzen half.

10 Recreation Common

Throughout the video games examined, the Core i5-13500 with DDR5 reminiscence was on common 9% slower than the Ryzen 7600.

If we had been to take away video games that closely favored the Zen 4 processors equivalent to CSGO, Rainbow Six Extraction, and particularly Horizon Zero Daybreak, these two processors could be extra evenly matched. Nevertheless, we have discovered this pattern of video games typically displays what we see throughout large 40-50 sport benchmarks, no less than inside a number of % factors.

The Core i5-13500 does stack up properly to earlier technology CPUs when utilizing DDR4 reminiscence, providing 7% larger efficiency than the Ryzen 5600X, which we estimate would make it round 12% sooner than the 12400.

Additionally listed below are the 1440p outcomes for these of you , additionally utilizing the RTX 4090.

The Ryzen 7600 was 9% sooner than the 13500 utilizing DDR5 reminiscence, or 16% sooner when limiting the i5 to DDR4. Utilizing DDR5 the 13500 was additionally 5% sooner than the 12600K, however 7% slower than the 13600K.

Energy Consumption

In terms of energy consumption for an all-core workload, the Core i5-13500 is comparatively energy environment friendly, pushing whole system utilization to 231 watts utilizing DDR4 and 266 watts with DDR5.

That is comparable energy utilization to the Ryzen 7700X for related efficiency, the i5-13500 was simply 5% slower on this check.

Having stated that, the 7700X is not precisely an environment friendly product, the non-X model delivered mainly the identical stage of efficiency whereas utilizing significantly much less energy. Nonetheless, on this instance, the 13500 matched the 7700 when utilizing DDR4 reminiscence and right here we see that energy utilization for your entire system is simply 9% increased, so not too dangerous.

Value vs. Efficiency

Working a value per body evaluation, for the 13500 we have got two costs, one with the $115 G.Ability DDR4-3600 CL16 equipment and one other utilizing the DDR5-6400 equipment. The DDR5 configuration relies on a $160 Z690 board, whereas the DDR4 configuration relies on an honest $130 B660 board.

The Zen 4 processors are priced with the DDR5-6000 CL30 reminiscence they had been examined with together with a $180 B650 board. We all know there’s one Gigabyte B650 board promoting for $160, however most are round $180 and up as this will increase your choices to 3 B650 boards.

Based mostly on these costs the Ryzen 7600 comes out to a price of $2.53 per body and technically with a bit of overclocking you’ll be able to match the 7600X which would cut back the price per body of the non-X half to $2.43, however we’re not together with that knowledge right here as had been specializing in out of the field efficiency.

In terms of gaming efficiency the Core i5-13500 is a bit of disappointing when it comes to worth, with the DDR4 model coming in at a value of $2.71 per body or $2.77 for the DDR5 configuration, making it 9% extra pricey per body when in comparison with the 7600.

Even when we ignore the efficiency knowledge, the price of the 13500 on a DDR5 motherboard is the same as that of the 7600, whereas choosing DDR4 will prevent a mere $65, and can with out query end in much less gaming efficiency.

What We Discovered

The Core i5-13500 is a really attention-grabbing providing and positively the most effective of the locked Thirteenth-gen CPUs we have examined up to now. With its 8 E-cores, it is a genuinely robust productiveness CPU, energy consumption may be very affordable and thermals are straightforward to maintain in examine with an honest cooler. Gaming efficiency can be stable, although it must go DDR5 to compete with the likes of the Ryzen 5 7600.

In terms of productiveness it might edge out the Ryzen 7 7700X, although relying on the workload it is not at all times an important deal sooner than the 7600X like what we noticed in our code compilation benchmark, and it might find yourself slower for frivolously threaded functions equivalent to Photoshop. General although, the 13500 is the superior productiveness CPU.

Gaming is quite a bit much less clear reduce and we expect issues swing the opposite manner with the 7600 being the superior selection right here, even when factoring in worth. The Ryzen 7600 may also be simply overclocked to provide 7600X ranges of gaming efficiency, and whereas that does not change issues drastically, it does additional benefit the Ryzen processor.

Sadly, Intel has utterly locked down BCLK overclocking for Thirteenth-gen Non-Okay processors, so even you probably have a motherboard sporting an exterior clock generator, it will not have the ability to do something with the 13500, which actually sucks and is an enormous blow to this half for fanatics.

The Intel field cooler additionally sucks, it is loud and sees the i5-13500 endure thermal throttling points in properly underneath a minute whereas the Wraith Stealth that comes with the Ryzen 7600 avoids any throttling and can be comparatively quiet. It’s also possible to obtain the efficiency proven on this evaluation with the AMD field cooler, however that is not at all times attainable with Intel’s cooler.

However in our opinion the only greatest blow to the Core i5-13500 is the LGA 1700 platform, which is now on the finish of the street with no future prospects.

In the meantime, AM5 will likely be supported for years to come back and can assist future CPU generations. Zen 5 is anticipated to be a radical replace, so being able to assist future processors is a large win, and it is why we might purchase the Ryzen 7600 over the i5-13500.

Had the Intel CPU supplied extra worth for avid gamers, then it might make the selection quite a bit tougher, however the truth that you want DDR5 reminiscence to compete with the 7600, and DDR4 would not assist a lot with the worth equation anyway, until you go for a 16GB equipment, however we expect at this level new system builders will need to put money into a 32GB equipment. It’s also possible to buy 16GB DDR5-4800 CL38 kits for round $80 and whereas that could be round twice the worth of a comparable DDR4 equipment, a $40 saving is peanuts when you think about the price of the motherboard and CPU.

For productiveness we may see us investing within the Core i5-13500, although we have got to confess for simply $80 extra the Ryzen 7 7700 would tempt us, as efficiency total is comparable and also you get that improve path. However we may simply hold going, the non-Okay 13700 might be had for $410 or the Ryzen 9 7900 for $430, and at that time we’re speaking a couple of very totally different finances.

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