Intel Core i5-13600KF vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i5 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Price

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$ 299.99

$ 107.56 significantly less expensive

$ 407.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12268 points

12696 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14110 points

9% slightly better gaming score

12933 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11683 points

12616 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11560 points

12600 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10318 points

11128 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

305.49 points

394.92 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14473 points

16762 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2622 points

2797 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15467 points

16768 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2754 points

2868 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.49 GHz

3.70 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz

5.4 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB

64 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

47th of 1,089

45th 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 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Core i5-13600KF vs Ryzen 9 7900 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900 is faster than the Core i5-13600KF. Despite this, the Core i5-13600KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13600KF has slightly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7900 has 12 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900 has more threads than the Core i5-13600KF. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13600KF. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13600KF. The Ryzen 9 7900 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 i5-13600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.