Intel Core i7-13700KF 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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$ 299.00

$ 87.14 slightly less expensive

$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

14597 points

45% significantly better overall score

10011 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

15533 points

30% slightly better gaming score

11884 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14287 points

52% significantly better multitasking score

9348 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14235 points

55% significantly better heavy workload score

9142 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12620 points

57% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

8010 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

392.10 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

263.24 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17482 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

15051 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2885 points

5% 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

26th 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 i7-13700KF vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-13700KF performs better than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13700KF has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D that 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 i7-13700KF. In terms of cache, the Core i7-13700KF has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-13700KF.

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