AMD Ryzen 5 8500G vs Intel Core i5-13400

Last updated:

CPU comparison with benchmarks


AMD Ryzen 5 8500G CPU1 vs CPU2 Intel Core i5-13400
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G Intel Core i5-13400

CPU comparison

AMD Ryzen 5 8500G or Intel Core i5-13400 - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results.

The AMD Ryzen 5 8500G has 6 cores with 12 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 5.00 GHz. Up to 256 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The AMD Ryzen 5 8500G was released in Q1/2024.

The Intel Core i5-13400 has 10 cores with 16 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 4.60 GHz. The CPU supports up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i5-13400 was released in Q1/2023.
AMD Ryzen 5 (84) Family Intel Core i5 (331)
AMD Ryzen 8000G (12) CPU group Intel Core i 13000 (AL) (16)
6 Generation 13
Phoenix (Zen 4) Architecture Alder Lake S Refresh
Desktop / Server Segment Desktop / Server
-- Predecessor Intel Core i5-12400
-- Successor Intel Core i5-14400

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The AMD Ryzen 5 8500G has 6 CPU cores and can calculate 12 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the AMD Ryzen 5 8500G is 4.10 GHz (5.00 GHz) while the Intel Core i5-13400 has 10 CPU cores and 16 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-13400 is at 2.50 GHz (4.60 GHz).

AMD Ryzen 5 8500G Characteristic Intel Core i5-13400
6 Cores 10
12 Threads 16
hybrid (big.LITTLE) Core architecture hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Yes Hyperthreading Yes
No Overclocking ? No
4.10 GHz (5.00 GHz)
2x Zen 4
A-Core 2.50 GHz (4.60 GHz)
6x Raptor Cove
3.20 GHz (3.70 GHz)
4x Zen 4c
B-Core 1.80 GHz (3.30 GHz)
4x Gracemont

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

AMD Ryzen 5 8500G Characteristic Intel Core i5-13400
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

The AMD Ryzen 5 8500G or Intel Core i5-13400 has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.

AMD Radeon 740M GPU Intel UHD Graphics 730
0.80 GHz GPU frequency 0.30 GHz
2.80 GHz GPU (Turbo) 1.55 GHz
10 GPU Generation 12
4 nm Technology 14 nm
4 Max. displays 3
4 Compute units 24
256 Shader 192
Yes Hardware Raytracing No
AMD FSR Frame Generation No
32 GB Max. GPU Memory 64 GB
12 DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

AMD Radeon 740M GPU Intel UHD Graphics 730
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec AV1 Decode
Decode Codec AVC Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

The AMD Ryzen 5 8500G can use up to 256 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 83.2 GB/s. The Intel Core i5-13400 supports up to 128 GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 76.8 GB/s.

AMD Ryzen 5 8500G Characteristic Intel Core i5-13400
DDR5-5200 Memory DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200
256 GB Max. Memory 128 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
83.2 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 76.8 GB/s
No ECC Yes
6.00 MB L2 Cache 9.50 MB
16.00 MB L3 Cache 20.00 MB
4.0 PCIe version 5.0
14 PCIe lanes 20
27.6 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth 78.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the AMD Ryzen 5 8500G is 65 W, while the Intel Core i5-13400 has a TDP of 65 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.

AMD Ryzen 5 8500G Characteristic Intel Core i5-13400
65 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 65 W
-- TDP (PL2) 154 W
-- TDP up --
45 W TDP down --
95 °C Tjunction max. 100 °C

Technical details

The AMD Ryzen 5 8500G is manufactured in 4 nm and has 22.00 MB cache. The Intel Core i5-13400 is manufactured in 10 nm and has a 29.50 MB cache.

AMD Ryzen 5 8500G Characteristic Intel Core i5-13400
4 nm Technology 10 nm
Monolithic Chip design Monolithic
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512 ISA extensions SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, AVX2+
AM5 (LGA 1718) Socket LGA 1700
AMD-V, SVM Virtualization VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
Yes AES-NI Yes
Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Q1/2024 Release date Q1/2023
179 $ Release price 221 $
show more data show more data


Rate these processors

Here you can rate the AMD Ryzen 5 8500G to help other visitors make their purchasing decisions. The average rating is 4.6 stars (16 ratings). Rate now:
Here you can rate the Intel Core i5-13400 to help other visitors make their purchasing decisions. The average rating is 3.9 stars (15 ratings). Rate now:


Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G (98%)
Intel Core i5-13400 (91%)
⌀ Multi core performance in 4 CPU benchmarks
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G (90%)
Intel Core i5-13400 (97%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
6C 12T @ 5.00 GHz
101 (95%)
Intel Core i5-13400 Intel Core i5-13400
10C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
106 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
6C 12T @ 5.00 GHz
742 (90%)
Intel Core i5-13400 Intel Core i5-13400
10C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
821 (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
6C 12T @ 5.00 GHz
1965 (100%)
Intel Core i5-13400 Intel Core i5-13400
10C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
1644 (84%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
6C 12T @ 4.45 GHz
8768 (85%)
Intel Core i5-13400 Intel Core i5-13400
10C 16T @ 4.10 GHz
10309 (100%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
6C 12T @ 5.00 GHz
2686 (100%)
Intel Core i5-13400 Intel Core i5-13400
10C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
2375 (88%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
6C 12T @ 4.45 GHz
11063 (100%)
Intel Core i5-13400 Intel Core i5-13400
10C 16T @ 4.10 GHz
9712 (88%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
AMD Radeon 740M @ 2.80 GHz
1434 (100%)
Intel Core i5-13400 Intel Core i5-13400
Intel UHD Graphics 730 @ 1.55 GHz
595 (41%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
6C 12T @ 4.45 GHz
21862 (84%)
Intel Core i5-13400 Intel Core i5-13400
10C 16T @ 4.10 GHz
25910 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
6C 12T @ 5.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-13400 Intel Core i5-13400
10C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
1794 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
6C 12T @ 4.45 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-13400 Intel Core i5-13400
10C 16T @ 4.10 GHz
15890 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
6C 12T @ 5.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-13400 Intel Core i5-13400
10C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
687 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
6C 12T @ 4.45 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-13400 Intel Core i5-13400
10C 16T @ 4.10 GHz
6055 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
6C 12T @ 4.45 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-13400 Intel Core i5-13400
10C 16T @ 4.10 GHz
674 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
6C 12T @ 4.10 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-13400 Intel Core i5-13400
10C 16T @ 2.50 GHz
6282 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
6C 12T @ 5.00 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-13400 Intel Core i5-13400
10C 16T @ 4.60 GHz
253 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
6C 12T @ 4.45 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-13400 Intel Core i5-13400
10C 16T @ 4.10 GHz
2336 (100%)

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)

Efficiency of the processor under full load in the Cinebench R23 (multi-core) benchmark. The benchmark result is divided by the average energy required (CPU package power in watts). The higher the value, the more efficient the CPU is under full load.
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G AMD Ryzen 5 8500G
4.10 GHz
0 (0%)
Intel Core i5-13400 Intel Core i5-13400
15,890 CB R23 MC @ 94 W
169 (100%)

Devices using this processor

AMD Ryzen 5 8500G Intel Core i5-13400
Unknown Unknown

Popular comparisons containing this CPUs

1. Intel Core i5-13400Intel Core i5-13500 Intel Core i5-13400 vs Intel Core i5-13500
2. Intel Core i5-13400Intel Core i5-12400 Intel Core i5-13400 vs Intel Core i5-12400
3. Intel Core i5-13400Intel Core i5-13400F Intel Core i5-13400 vs Intel Core i5-13400F
4. Intel Core i5-13400Intel Core i5-12600K Intel Core i5-13400 vs Intel Core i5-12600K
5. AMD Ryzen 5 7600XIntel Core i5-13400 AMD Ryzen 5 7600X vs Intel Core i5-13400
6. Intel Core i5-13400Intel Core i7-12700 Intel Core i5-13400 vs Intel Core i7-12700
7. Intel Core i5-13400Intel Core i5-13600 Intel Core i5-13400 vs Intel Core i5-13600
8. Intel Core i5-13400AMD Ryzen 7 5700G Intel Core i5-13400 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700G
9. Intel Core i5-13400AMD Ryzen 5 7600 Intel Core i5-13400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600
10. AMD Ryzen 7 5700XIntel Core i5-13400 AMD Ryzen 7 5700X vs Intel Core i5-13400


back to index