Intel Core i7-13700F vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Core i7-13700F vs Ryzen 7 9700X benchmarks

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

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13700F has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 9700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700F. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-13700F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-13700F.

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 i7-13700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.