AMD Ryzen 7 2700X vs Intel Core i9-13900K

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i9 24 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

$ 170.99
$ 377.10 significantly less expensive
$ 548.09

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5776 points
16350 points
183% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6952 points
15858 points
128% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5375 points
16597 points
208% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5256 points
16857 points
220% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4802 points
16398 points
241% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.45 points
522.08 points
249% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6148 points
19777 points
221% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1232 points
2939 points
138% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6111 points
19967 points
226% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1254 points
2985 points
138% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
24
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.35 GHz
5.7 GHz
31% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
19% slightly lower TDP
125 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
1920 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
32 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
36 MiB
125% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

271st of 1,089
13th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
13th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April
2022 October

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 2700X vs Core i9-13900K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-13900K is faster than the Ryzen 7 2700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 2700X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-13900K has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 2700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 2700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-13900K. Despite this, the Core i9-13900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 2700X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-13900K 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 i9-13900K has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 2700X. The Core i9-13900K also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 7 2700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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