Intel Core i7-10700K vs Intel Core i9-13900K

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i9 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 380.99
$ 167.10 significantly less expensive
$ 548.09

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6751 points
16350 points
142% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8301 points
15858 points
91% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6232 points
16597 points
166% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6087 points
16857 points
176% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7292 points
16398 points
124% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

177.76 points
522.08 points
193% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8022 points
19777 points
146% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1655 points
2939 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8131 points
19967 points
145% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1719 points
2985 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
24
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

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
Identical
125 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

16
20
25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
Identical
128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
1920 KiB
274% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
32 MiB
1500% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
36 MiB
125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

207th of 1,089
13th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7
13th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2022 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i7-10700K vs Core i9-13900K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-13900K is faster than the Core i7-10700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-13900K has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i7-10700K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13900K. Despite this, the Core i9-13900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-13900K has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700K. The Core i9-13900K 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 i7-10700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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