Intel Core i9-13900F vs Intel Core i7-13790F

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i9 24 core CPU vs Intel 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13527 points
13984 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14509 points
14684 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13292 points
13783 points
3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13352 points
13809 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

14549 points
19% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
12145 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

412.01 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
392.92 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
49% significantly more cores
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
33% slightly more threads
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
2.1 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

36 MiB
9% slightly more L3 cache
33 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

37th of 1,089
32nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i9
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
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Core i9-13900F vs Core i7-13790F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13790F is faster than the Core i9-13900F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-13900F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-13900F has significantly more cores than the Core i7-13790F. Indeed, the Core i9-13900F has 24 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Core i7-13790F. It also has more threads than the Core i7-13790F. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-13790F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13900F. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-13900F has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-13790F. The Core i9-13900F also has slightly 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 i9-13900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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