Intel Core i5-13600K vs AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D

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

12139 points
6% slightly better overall score
11415 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14231 points
5% slightly better gaming score
13499 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11472 points
7% slightly better multitasking score
10715 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11341 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
10514 points

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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
4.7 GHz
56% significantly higher clock speed

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
60th 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

2022 November
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Core i5-13600K vs Ryzen 7 9850X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13600K is faster than the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 9850X3D in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 7 9850X3D has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9850X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-13600K. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13600K. The Ryzen 7 9850X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-13600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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