Intel Core i7-13700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i7 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Price

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$ 368.72

$ 17.42 slightly less expensive

$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

14060 points

40% slightly better overall score

10011 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14945 points

25% slightly better gaming score

11884 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13764 points

47% significantly better multitasking score

9348 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13708 points

49% significantly better heavy workload score

9142 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12634 points

57% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

8010 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

398.19 points

51% significantly higher Blender score

263.24 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

30753 points

70% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

18086 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17684 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

15051 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2847 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2723 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

4.20 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

120 W

4% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1280 KiB

150% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

32 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

96 MiB

220% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

29th of 1,089

88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 November

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-13700K vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13700K is faster than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13700K has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13700K. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-13700K has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-13700K.

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