Intel Core i7-13700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Core i7-13700K vs Ryzen 7 7700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700K beats the Ryzen 7 7700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7700 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 7 7700. Indeed, the Core i7-13700K has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7700. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700K. Despite this, the Core i7-13700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7700 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. In terms of cache, the Core i7-13700K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 7700. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700 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.