Intel Core i9-7900X vs Intel Core i5-13600K

Core i9-7900X vs Core i5-13600K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13600K beats the Core i9-7900X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7900X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7900X has slightly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Core i5-13600K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-13600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13600K. Despite this, the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-13600K outputs less heat than Core i9-7900X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.