AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i7-13700

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Core i7-13700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13700 is faster than the Ryzen 5 2600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13700 has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 2600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700. Despite this, the Core i7-13700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-13700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 2600. The Core i7-13700 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 5 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.