Intel Core i7-13700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Core i7-13700K vs Ryzen 5 9600X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13700K is faster than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 9600X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-13700K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Indeed, the Core i7-13700K has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 9600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700K. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Ryzen 5 9600X outputs less heat than Core i7-13700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-13700K has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-13700K.

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