AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i7-13700KF

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Core i7-13700KF comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13700KF 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 i7-13700KF 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. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 5 2600 and Core i7-13700KF are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i7-13700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2600 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-13700KF CPU because of its significantly 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 i7-13700KF has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 2600. The Core i7-13700KF 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.