Intel Core i9-13900KF vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D

Compare Intel 13th Generation Core i9 24 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 12 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

$ 551.08
$ 248.91 significantly less expensive
$ 799.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

17180 points
28% slightly better overall score
13385 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

16331 points
23% slightly better gaming score
13203 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

17547 points
30% slightly better multitasking score
13450 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

17852 points
32% slightly better heavy workload score
13474 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

526.86 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
398.41 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19878 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
17603 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2946 points
5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
2784 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19500 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
17560 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2919 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2866 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

24
100% significantly more cores
12

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
33% slightly more threads
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
4.40 GHz
46% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.8 GHz
3% slightly higher turbo speed
5.6 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
150% significantly more L1 cache
768 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

32 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache
12 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

8th of 1,089
38th of 1,089

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 i9-13900KF vs Ryzen 9 7900X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-13900KF beats the Ryzen 9 7900X3D in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7900X3D in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-13900KF has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 7900X3D that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13900KF. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-13900KF has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-13900KF.

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 i9-13900KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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