Intel Core i5-13600K vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i5 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Price

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$ 299.39

$ 377.60 significantly less expensive

$ 676.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12139 points

14398 points

18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14231 points

7% slightly better gaming score

13255 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11472 points

14804 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11341 points

14984 points

32% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10325 points

14388 points

39% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

308.32 points

537.64 points

74% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

24268 points

36291 points

49% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14478 points

19516 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2652 points

2881 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14998 points

19647 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2681 points

2926 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly 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

5.7 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

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

1024 KiB

60% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

16 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB

128 MiB

433% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

48th of 1,089

27th of 1,089

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 November

2023 February

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 9 7950X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D beats the Core i5-13600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-13600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Core i5-13600K that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600K. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13600K. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has more L2 cache than the Core i5-13600K. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D 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.