Intel Core i7-13700KF vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

Core i7-13700KF vs Ryzen 9 9900X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D beats the Core i7-13700KF in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-13700KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13700KF has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700KF. Also, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9900X3D outputs less heat than Core i7-13700KF thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-13700KF has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 9900X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D 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.