Intel Core i5-13420H vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i5 8 core CPU vs AMD 9 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5252 points
5669 points
7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7672 points
7% slightly better gaming score
7130 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4530 points
5211 points
15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4376 points
5104 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

120.41 points
136.28 points
13% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
9
12% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
18
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
3.19 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

7 MiB
55% significantly more L2 cache
4.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
32 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

316th of 1,089
278th of 1,089

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i5
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February
2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5200
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-13420H vs EPYC 74F3 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the EPYC 74F3 performs better than the Core i5-13420H. Despite this, the Core i5-13420H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the EPYC 74F3 has slightly more cores than the Core i5-13420H. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has 9 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i5-13420H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13420H. Our comparison shows that the EPYC 74F3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13420H. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-13420H has more L2 cache than the EPYC 74F3. Despite this, the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13420H.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-13420H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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