AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i7-13700

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i7 16 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

$ 229.99
$ 247.76 significantly less expensive
$ 477.75

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8422 points
11040 points
31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points
13218 points
56% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points
10372 points
23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points
10223 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8594 points
11967 points
39% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points
316.57 points
14% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19000 points
29725 points
56% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9929 points
14666 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1667 points
2584 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9907 points
14471 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1704 points
2638 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
Identical
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
81% significantly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5.2 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
8 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
113% significantly more L3 cache
30 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 1,089
68th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
13th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i7-13700 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-13700 performs better than the Ryzen 9 3900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3900X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13700 has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 3900X that has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X 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 info from our database shows that the Core i7-13700 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 3900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-13700.

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 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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