Intel Core i9-13900KF vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

Core i9-13900KF vs Ryzen 9 9950X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-13900KF is faster than the Ryzen 9 9950X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 9950X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-13900KF has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 9950X. Indeed, the Core i9-13900KF has 24 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 9950X. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 9950X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13900KF. Despite this, the Core i9-13900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-13900KF CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 9950X CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i9-13900KF has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 9950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-13900KF.

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