Intel Core i7-13700F vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i7 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Price

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$ 255.00

$ 66.08 slightly less expensive

$ 321.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12031 points

18% slightly better overall score

10175 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13909 points

59% significantly better gaming score

8712 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11438 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

10760 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11295 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

11072 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points

6% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

11130 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.63 points

367.23 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3.30 GHz

57% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

4.8 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

24 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

64 MiB

113% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

52nd of 1,089

83rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February

2024 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Core i7-13700F vs Ryzen 9 5900XT benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-13700F performs better than the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900XT in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 9 5900XT has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13700F. Despite this, the Core i7-13700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-13700F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly 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.