Intel Core i7-13700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Core i7-13700K vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13700K is faster than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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 9800X3D. Indeed, the Core i7-13700K has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13700K. Despite this, the Core i7-13700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D outputs less heat than Core i7-13700K thanks to a slightly 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 9800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-13700K.

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