Core i5-13500 Review & Benchmarks, Intel's New $250 Mid-Range Weapon



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Video Index:
00:00 – Welcome back to Hardware Unboxed
00:38 – Sponsor Spot
01:18 – Meet the Core i5-13500
03:55 – Test System Specs
04:42 – Operating Behaviour
05:59 – Cinebench R23
06:44 – 7-Zip File Manager
07:29 – Blender Open Data
07:47 – Corona 1.3 Benchmark
07:59 – Adobe Premiere Pro 2022
08:25 – Adobe Photoshop 2022
08:41 – Adobe After Effects 2022
09:01 – Chromium Code Compile
09:21 – Factorio
09:40 – Watch Dogs: Legion
10:10 – Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction
10:53 – Hitman 3
11:16 – Spider-Man Remastered
11:44 – Shadow of the Tomb Raider
12:08 – Horizon Zero Dawn
12:28 – Cyberpunk 2077
12:47 – Assetto Corsa Competizione
13:02 – The Riftbreaker
13:20 – Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
13:46 – 10 Game Average, 1080p
14:32 – 10 Game Average, 1440p
14:57 – Power Consumption
15:41 – Cost per Frame
17:24 – Final Thoughts

Intel Core i5-13500 Review & Benchmarks

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This Post Has 38 Comments

  1. arnersae

    Intel should really unlock their locked skus. The reason that I finally can tinker with my system like in the old days is the reason I built a b660+12400 system, and I just sold my 5800x system in favor of another 12th gen build. Gathering parts for the other pc right this moment.. If bclk overclocking wasn't a thing, I wouldn't have shooed the 5800x like that, but I find CO much more tedious and boring than bclk tuning a intel 12th. Also, the 5800x didn't age well imo. AM5 is still too expensive, and the CO is the same boring stuff as on AM4.

  2. Strider Wolf

    Agreed the i5 13500 loses to the r5 7600 in all gaming aspects but in reality most entry level gamers would still choose i5 13500 with H610M motherboard and DDR4 3200 as that is the cheapest yet decent entry point to pc gaming. Yes performance is lower compared to the nearest competitions but it is still worlds faster than whatever we are upgrading from. We don't value "future proofing" as we rarely upgrade, we stick to the build we bought for 5 years or more until it is inadequate for our needs then buy a whole new decent budget system when the extra funds arises. As for gpu the RX 66XX family are the only budget choice currently! PCBudgetRace ^_^

  3. D M

    So 7600 for gaming 13500 for productivity or a combination.

  4. ddlog41894

    The problem with the Intel 13500 vs the Ryzen Non X 7000 series parts is you also have to factor into the price, an aftermarket cooler. AMD can hit those performance numbers without relying on an aftermarket cooler! You can even turn on PBO and get a bit more performance since Zen 4 is made to operate at higher temps without thermal throttling.

  5. Zoran

    Is the Power Consumption, 'Whole System' draw or just the 'CPU' draw? ๐Ÿ™‚

  6. Arshi Farooq

    Intel : Just taking advantage of more number of cores๐Ÿ˜Ž๐Ÿ˜Ž
    AMD : But I am better in gaming with less cores ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

  7. Marcos Codas

    The 7600 comes with a cooler that allows performance without thermal throttling. If the Intel CPU needs an aftermarket cooler to achieve the performance shown and the AMD one doesnโ€™t, you should add the cost of the cooler to the cost-per-frame graphs.

  8. Wow the AM5 Motherboards pricing is really destroying their cost per frame stats. How can they still be this expensive!? I really donโ€™t get what is causing the difference

  9. Brandon Clark

    I like the charts but the title CPU is the 13500. At least bold that in the left column for better visibility, please.

  10. Joe Marais

    The fact that this thing can actually go into $150 boards with $70 ram and go toe to toe with AMDโ€™s stuff thatโ€™s limited to $250 boards and $150 ram is incredible.

    Intel could have pulled an AMD and price the thing tons higher to match overall price to perf, but thank God they arenโ€™t that delusional like them.

  11. Shamrock

    My 5800x3d is chugging right along, still not irrelevant. ๐Ÿ™‚

  12. OceanLoverTV

    Hi guys. Is there a way that I can get MS Excel to use all cores and threads of a 13th gen Intel or 7th gen AMD cpu?

  13. casnub

    Suddenly gaming has become a much more important aspect to look into than multi threaded productivity load since October 2022

  14. Jay Rajgor

    Steve so which one would recommend if I'm going with DDR4 32 gigs ram 3200mhz (13500 or 13600k)?
    Mainly for productivity then gaming

  15. hibdy

    Thank you so much…I bought a 13500 on a bit of gamble without many reviews and I'm just about to move from a 5800x AM4 back to intel after 15 years! Being installed with DDR5 in a Z690 MSI Tomahawk wifi!

  16. Pressbutan

    I'm on a 10500T as a daily driver and it's still fine, but I'm curious how much the 13500T will improve power draw. This thing does run kind of hot. If you get a chance to test the inevitable 35W variant, I'd love to see how it compares to the normal one.

  17. New Life

    Why only 1080p? Who will use 4090 in 1080p?

  18. Smurf Jegeren

    Ended up grabbing a Ryzen 5 7600 after this release. Platform cost with DDR5 and a B660 board for the intel aide ended up with a difference of 2.6% in cost, with AMD being the cheaper alternative for 9% more power๐Ÿซ 

  19. Sylvain N.

    Apparently, all non-K 13th "gen" CPUs use Alder Lake core architecture, which is a turn-off for me. This info wasn't present in this vid. It may not change lots in terms of performance, but it's interesting and somewhat dishonest from Intel's part.

  20. Simon

    Is it really the best mid-range CPU ??
    The 13600KF costs just a few bucks more – I go for this one…

  21. C J

    I would have liked to have seen results with the same or stock air cooler, as well as for the 7600. Is throttling an issue or was the 360 needed at all

  22. C J

    There's a lot of adjustments in favour of intel to get it even slightly close to the 7600 with no OC potential with a rubbish stock cooler, which would bump the price further

  23. Santo Valentino

    My 13600k is always running on 5.1. Is there an energy savings process? I have a Z790 Asus.

  24. GonthorianDX

    It still boggles my mind why people buy Intel CPUs when they run much hotter and consume vastly more power

  25. Of course it is better in productive tasks because it has 14 cores, this just shows how strong the 7600 and 7600x are with their six cores.

  26. Rodney

    Review the new LG monitors already ๐Ÿ˜ค

  27. B

    Why is he wearing a jumper in summer?๐Ÿฅต

  28. ูด

    Why focus on 7600? Shouldn't it be against the $250 7600X rather than $230 non-x.

  29. Thanks for the (again) great video and testing! ๐Ÿ‘
    And here we are again, my problem. From the 1st day of Intel's P+E core CPUs there is the contrast to compete the 12thread AMD against the 16/20thread Intel – from price perspective. Whereas the 16thread AMD is more or less the on-par opponent in productivity workloads. And since the single core performances are apparently around the same, the conclusion of the tests is right: AMD should lower prices (IF they can at all), and in case the user's preferences are more towards gaming, AM5 is a better overall choice.
    My questions:
    1. Could you test the Intel CPUs with (almost) exclusively using the E cores? Just to see, how much they add to the picture. (And Buildzoid has a video with the 12900K, where he is suspicious that the E cores alone have higher power consumption than the Ryzen 9 5950X.)
    2. You mention in several tests, that the bundled Intel coolers should be replaced with a cheap 20 bucks aftermarket one, but then you're making tests with a high-end AIO. Would you make only one test with a 20-ish cooler, just for the fun? (If you can, of course.)
    Final notice: Intel's real problems would come with the much cheaper B650 boards, or the B520 boards, if they will be competitive in terms of features and VRM. (Not in our life?)

  30. Terry

    please do a B760 motherboard VRM thermal review, thanks !

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