AMD Ryzen 5 8540U vs Intel Core i5 13500HX

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We compared two laptop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 5 8540U with 6 cores 3.2GHz and Intel Core i5 13500HX with 14 cores 2.5GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Better graphics card performance

Higher specification of memory (LPDDR5x-7500 vs DDR5-4800)

Larger memory bandwidth (89.6GB/s vs 76.8GB/s)

Higher base frequency (3.2GHz vs 2.5GHz)

Lower TDP (15W vs 45W)

Intel Core i5 13500HX 's Advantages

Newer PCIe version (5.0 vs 4.0)

Larger L3 cache size (24MB vs 16MB)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

1814

Intel Core i5 13500HX +2%

1860

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

10508

Intel Core i5 13500HX +73%

18264

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U +1%

2390

Intel Core i5 13500HX

2344

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

8172

Intel Core i5 13500HX +57%

12886

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

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Intel Core i5 13500HX

General Parameters

Dec 2023

Release Date

Jan 2023

Amd

Manufacturer

Intel

Laptop

Type

Laptop

x86-64

Instruction Set

x86-64

Hawk Point

Core Architecture

Raptor Lake

-

Processor Number

i5-13500HX

FP7

Socket

BGA-1964

Radeon 740M

Integrated Graphics

UHD Graphics (16EU)

Ryzen 5 (Zen 4 (Hawk Point))

Generation

-

Package

20.9 billions

Transistor Count

-

4 nm

Manufacturing Process

10 nm

FP7

Socket

BGA-1964

15-30 W

Power Consumption

45-55 W

-

Max Turbo Power Consumption

157 W

100°C

Peak Operating Temperature

100°C

TSMC

Foundry

-

137 mm²

Die Size

-

FP7, FP7r2

Package

-

CPU Performance

6

Performance Cores

6

12

Performance Core Threads

12

3.2 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

2.5 GHz

4.9 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.7 GHz

4

Efficiency Cores

8

Efficiency Core Threads

8

-

Efficiency Core Base Frequency

1.8 GHz

-

Efficiency Core Turbo Frequency

3.5 GHz

6

Total Core Count

14

12

Total Thread Count

20

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

32x

Multiplier

25x

64 K per core

L1 Cache

80 K per core

1 MB per core

L2 Cache

2 MB per core

16 MB shared

L3 Cache

24 MB shared

No

Unlocked Multiplier

Yes

1

SMP

-

Memory Parameters

DDR5-5600, LPDDR5x-7500

Memory Types

DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200

256 GB

Max Memory Size

192 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

2

89.6 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

76.8 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

Yes

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

true

1500 MHz

GPU Base Frequency

350 MHz

2800 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1500 MHz

256

Shader Units

128

16

Texture Units

16

8

Raster Operation Units

8

4

Execution Units

16

15 W

Power Consumption

15 W

2.56 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

0.382 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 5 8540U

Official Website

Intel Core i5 13500HX

4.0

PCIe Version

5.0

14

PCIe Lanes

20

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