AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core i7-13700T

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11217 points
11526 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9950 points
12871 points
29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11664 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
11131 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11856 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
11068 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
306.05 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
11608 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points
2479 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
Identical
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
33% slightly more threads
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
142% significantly higher clock speed
1.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
Identical
4.9 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
24 MiB
200% significantly 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

67th of 1,102
58th of 1,102

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 i7-13700T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-13700T is faster than the Ryzen 9 5950X. 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. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700T. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-13700T has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-13700T.

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.

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