Intel Core i9-13900F vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i9 24 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 521.00
$ 155.99 slightly less expensive
$ 676.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13527 points
14398 points
6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14509 points
9% slightly better gaming score
13255 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13292 points
14804 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13352 points
14984 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

14549 points
1% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
14388 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

412.01 points
537.64 points
30% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17199 points
19647 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2801 points
2926 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
49% significantly more cores
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
Identical
32

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
4.20 GHz
110% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz
5.7 GHz
1% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

36 MiB
128 MiB
255% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

37th of 1,089
27th of 1,089

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
DDR5

Core i9-13900F vs Ryzen 9 7950X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D beats the Core i9-13900F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-13900F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-13900F has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has 16 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13900F. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-13900F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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