Intel Core i5-13600K vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i5 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 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

$ 299.39
$ 30.60 slightly less expensive
$ 329.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12139 points
73% significantly better overall score
6994 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14231 points
73% significantly better gaming score
8202 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11472 points
74% significantly better multitasking score
6575 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11341 points
76% significantly better heavy workload score
6440 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10325 points
52% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
6750 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

308.32 points
64% significantly higher Blender score
187.18 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14998 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
10106 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2681 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1922 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
3.58 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz
24% slightly higher turbo speed
4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
105 W
19% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
96 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

48th of 1,089
194th of 1,089

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 November
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Core i5-13600K vs Ryzen 7 5700X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13600K is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X3D in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13600K. Despite this, the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X3D outputs less heat than Core i5-13600K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 5700X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-13600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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