AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core i7-13700

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 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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Intel Core i7-13700

Price

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$ 287.24

$ 190.51 significantly less expensive

$ 477.75

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points

1% slightly better overall score

11040 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points

13218 points

33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

10372 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

10223 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points

11967 points

1% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

316.57 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

27062 points

29725 points

9% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12256 points

14666 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2148 points

2584 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points

14471 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points

2638 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

61% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5.2 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

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

66th 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

2020 May

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 5950X vs Core i7-13700 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700 beats the Ryzen 9 5950X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5950X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 9 5950X has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700. Despite this, the Core i7-13700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 5950X 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 9 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.