Intel Core i9-13900K vs Intel Core i7-13700K

Core i9-13900K vs Core i7-13700K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13900K beats the Core i7-13700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-13700K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-13900K has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Core i7-13700K has 16 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-13700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-13700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13900K. Despite this, the Core i9-13900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i9-13900K 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 i9-13900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.