Intel Core i5-13600KF vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

Core i5-13600KF vs Ryzen 7 7700X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13600KF beats the Ryzen 7 7700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7700X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13600KF has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13600KF. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7700X outputs less heat than Core i5-13600KF thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 7700X also has slightly 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 i5-13600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.