Intel Core i5-13600K vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i5 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Price

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$ 299.39

$ 86.75 slightly less expensive

$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12139 points

21% slightly better overall score

10011 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14231 points

19% slightly better gaming score

11884 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11472 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

9348 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11341 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

9142 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10325 points

28% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

8010 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

308.32 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

263.24 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

24268 points

34% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

18086 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14998 points

15051 points

0.35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2681 points

2723 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

4.20 GHz

40% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

120 W

4% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

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

88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 November

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600

DDR5

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 7800X3D specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13600K performs better than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13600K. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-13600K. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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.