Core i5-13500 Review, Intel's New $250 Mid-Range Weap

The i5-13500 is basically a i9-12900 with two deactivated P-cores and slightly lower clock speeds. It's even using the same chip (ADL-C0) as the 12th Gen i9 CPUs. It's not so much a ;downgrade; in cache, as it's simply based on a last-gen Alder Lake chip, so it never got the ;upgrade; to begin with.

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