AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i7-13700

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i7-13700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13700 is faster than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-13700 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Indeed, the Core i7-13700 has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 5900X. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700. Despite this, the Core i7-13700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i7-13700 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X 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 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.