Intel Core i9-12900F vs Intel Core i7-13700

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i9 16 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i7 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-13700

Price

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$ 528.31

$ 477.75

$ 50.56 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10606 points

11040 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12487 points

13218 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10032 points

10372 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9936 points

10223 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10914 points

11967 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

293.98 points

316.57 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

13858 points

14471 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2526 points

2638 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz

5.2 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

30 MiB

Identical

30 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

76th of 1,089

68th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i9

13th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i9-12900F vs Core i7-13700 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-13700 performs better than the Core i9-12900F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-12900F in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-12900F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700. Despite this, the Core i7-13700 has a slightly higher turbo speed.

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 i9-12900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.