Intel Core i7-13700K vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X

Core i7-13700K vs Ryzen 9 9900X specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 9900X performs better than the Core i7-13700K. Despite this, the Core i7-13700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13700K has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 9900X has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700K. Also, the Ryzen 9 9900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9900X 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 9 9900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9900X 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.