Intel Core i9-13900K 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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 548.09
$ 128.90 slightly less expensive
$ 676.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

16294 points
14% slightly better overall score
14240 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

15822 points
19% slightly better gaming score
13213 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

16535 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
14605 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

16792 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score
14773 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

16398 points
13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
14388 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

522.08 points
537.64 points
2% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

40103 points
10% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
36291 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19777 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
19516 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2939 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
2881 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19967 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
19647 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2985 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2926 points

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

3 GHz
4.20 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.7 GHz
Identical
5.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
120 W
4% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1920 KiB
87% significantly more L1 cache
1024 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

32 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
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

13th of 1,118
26th of 1,118

Family

The product line

13th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 October
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-5600
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Core i9-13900K vs Ryzen 9 7950X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-13900K is faster than the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7950X3D 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 Ryzen 9 7950X3D has 16 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13900K. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D outputs less heat than Core i9-13900K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i9-13900K has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-13900K.

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.

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