Intel Core i7-13700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Core i7-13700 vs Ryzen 7 9700X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700 beats the Ryzen 7 9700X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-13700 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Indeed, the Core i7-13700 has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 9700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9700X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13700. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 7 9700X also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-13700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.