Intel Core i5-13400F vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i5 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 142.82
$ 264.73 significantly less expensive
$ 407.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8423 points
13078 points
55% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10881 points
13206 points
21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7653 points
13028 points
70% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7469 points
13011 points
74% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7348 points
11128 points
51% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

197.47 points
394.92 points
99% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15911 points
24776 points
55% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10863 points
16768 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2293 points
2868 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
12
20% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
3.70 GHz
48% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5.4 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
12 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

20 MiB
64 MiB
220% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

129th of 1,089
40th of 1,089

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Core i5-13400F vs Ryzen 9 7900 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7900 performs better than the Core i5-13400F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-13400F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7900 has slightly more cores than the Core i5-13400F. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900 has 12 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i5-13400F. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13400F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13400F. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13400F. The Ryzen 9 7900 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-13400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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