Intel Core i7-13790F vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X

Core i7-13790F vs Ryzen 9 9900X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9900X is faster than the Core i7-13790F. Despite this, the Core i7-13790F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-13790F has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 9900X. Indeed, the Core i7-13790F has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 9900X. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 9900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13790F. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 9900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-13790F. The Ryzen 9 9900X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-13790F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.