Core i5-13500 vs Ryzen 5 7500F

Gaming speed, cores and clocks

The Core i5-13500 and the Ryzen 5 7500F are within a few percent of each other for gaming. In a game, you will not see the difference.

The Core i5-13500 has 14 cores and 20 threads, and the Ryzen 5 7500F has 6 cores and 12 threads. The extra cores of the Core i5-13500 help with video editing, streaming while you play and heavy multitasking more than with the game itself. Boost clocks are 4.8 GHz and 5 GHz.

Platform, power and price

The Core i5-13500 uses the LGA1700 socket and the Ryzen 5 7500F uses AM5, so they need different motherboards, and often different memory. When you compare prices, count the board as well as the chip.

Rated power is 65 W for the first and 65 W for the second. That is close enough that cooling needs will be similar.

At launch the Core i5-13500 cost $232 and the Ryzen 5 7500F $179, which gives 29.3 and 38.0 points of gaming performance per $100. Today's prices will differ.

Which graphics cards each one can feed, and which to buy

At 1080p the Core i5-13500 can feed a card up to the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti before it holds the card back by more than 10 percent. The Ryzen 5 7500F reaches the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. Both chips are in the same range for graphics card pairing.

Choose the Core i5-13500 if you want the faster gaming chip and the same or more cores. Choose the Ryzen 5 7500F if you would rather spend the difference on a graphics card, which does more for frame rates in most games.