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Intel Core i5 13500H vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

53 out of 100
Intel Core i5 13500H
VS
56 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS
Intel Core i5 13500H
AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

We compared two laptop CPUs: the 2.6 GHz Intel Core i5 13500H with 12-cores against the 4.3 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS with 6-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 7640HS and 13500H
Advantages of Intel Core i5 13500H
  • Has 6 more physical cores
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 10 nanometers
  • More powerful Radeon 760M integrated graphics: 2.7 vs 1.9 TFLOPS
  • 6% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5 GHz vs 4.7 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Core i5 13500H
vs
Ryzen 5 7640HS

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench 2026 (Single) 570 -
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) 3478 -
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Core i5 13500H +10%
11249
Ryzen 5 7640HS
10193
File compression 1040 MB/sec 1000 MB/sec
Clang compilation 80.4 Klines/sec 76.6 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 277.6 pages/sec 188.1 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 349.1 Mpixels/sec 254.4 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 245.9 pages/sec 263.2 pages/sec
Background blur 47.8 images/sec 52.6 images/sec
Photo processing 101.9 images/sec 75.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 15.7 Mpixels/sec 17.3 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 501 & 756 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Core i5 13500H
20909
Ryzen 5 7640HS +8%
22658
Integer math 71.4 GOps/sec 72.3 GOps/sec
Floating point math 51.1 GOps/sec 44.5 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 73M Primes/sec 78M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 27.5M Strings/sec 31.6M Strings/sec
Data encryption 14.6 GBytes/sec 15.6 GBytes/sec
Data compression 248.2 MBytes/sec 263.6 MBytes/sec
Physics 1257 Frames/sec 1158 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 14.5B Matrices/sec 20B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 1766 & 993 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Core i5 13500H +5%
170.75
Ryzen 5 7640HS
162.06

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 17.6 PPW 13.7 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 250 PPW 188.8 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 464.6 PPW 419.6 PPW
Blender / Watt 3.79 PPW 3 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Intel Core i5 13500H
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-08 (jhu)Cinebench 2026570 / 3478
πŸ“˜ 2023-11-26 (SAIMON)Cinebench 202458 / 615
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AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2025-02-23 (Jakabfi Zsolt)Cinebench 2024102 / 739
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Specifications

Full technical specification of Intel Core i5 13500H and AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

General

Vendor Intel Amd
Released January 3, 2023 January 4, 2023
Type Laptop Laptop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Raptor Lake Zen 4 (Phoenix)
Model number i5-13500H -
Integrated GPU Iris Xe Graphics (80EU) Radeon 760M
Rival Equivalent - AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS - Intel Core i5 13420H
Successor - Intel Core Ultra 5 235H - AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS
Intel CPU rating (#132nd place)
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (#87th place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 6
P-Threads 8 12
Base Frequency (P) 2.6 GHz 4.3 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.7 GHz 5 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 8 -
E-Threads 8 -
Base Frequency (E) 1.9 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.5 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 12 6
Total Threads 16 12
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 26x 43x
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 2MB (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 18MB (shared) 16MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No No

Package

Transistors - 25 billions
Fabrication Process 10 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 35-45 W (configurable) 35-54 W (configurable)
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 95 W -
Socket BGA-1744 FP8
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 100Β°C
Laptop processors ranking (170th and 144th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Intel Iris Xe Graphics (80EU) Radeon 760M
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 800 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1450 MHz 2600 MHz
Shading Units 640 512
TMUs 40 32
ROPs 20 16
Execution Units 80 8
TGP 15 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Core i5 13500H
1.9 TFLOPS
Ryzen 5 7640HS +42%
2.7 TFLOPS
More info: Radeon 760M compared to Iris Xe Graphics G7 (80EU)

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-5200
- DDR4-3200
- LPDDR5-6400
- LPDDR5x-6400
- LPDDR4x-4267		 - DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5x-7500
Max. Memory Size 96 GB 256 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
ECC Support No No

Misc

Official Site Intel Core i5 13500H official page AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS official page
PCI Express Version 5.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 28 20
Further details
Notes on Ryzen 5 7640HS:
    - ECC support is available exclusively on the FP7r2 socket.

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Comments

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