Intel Core i7-13700 vs Intel Core i9-13900

Core i7-13700 vs Core i9-13900 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700 beats the Core i9-13900 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-13900 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-13900 has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Core i7-13700 that has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-13700. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-13700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13900. Despite this, the Core i9-13900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-13900 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-13700. The Core i9-13900 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 i7-13700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.