Intel Core i7-12700F vs Intel Core i7-13700

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i7 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-13700

Price

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$ 244.97

$ 232.78 significantly less expensive

$ 477.75

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10416 points

11040 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12172 points

13218 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points

10372 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9714 points

10223 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9522 points

11967 points

25% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

270.50 points

316.57 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15291 points

29725 points

94% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11687 points

14666 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2341 points

2584 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11785 points

14471 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2387 points

2638 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

57% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5.2 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

30 MiB

20% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

77th of 1,089

68th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

13th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-12700F vs Core i7-13700 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13700 is faster than the Core i7-12700F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-12700F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13700 has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-12700F has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-12700F. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-12700F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700. Despite this, the Core i7-13700 has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i7-12700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.