AMD Ryzen 9 7900 vs Intel Core i7-13800H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 12 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i7 14 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

13078 points
42% slightly better overall score
9209 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13206 points
14% slightly better gaming score
11569 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13028 points
53% significantly better multitasking score
8514 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13011 points
55% significantly better heavy workload score
8394 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

394.92 points
104% significantly higher Blender score
192.82 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

24776 points
40% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
17591 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
14
16% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
20% slightly more threads
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.70 GHz
48% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz
3% slightly higher turbo speed
5.2 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
4% slightly more L2 cache
11.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

40th of 1,089
106th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
13th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-5200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 7900 vs Core i7-13800H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900 is faster than the Core i7-13800H. Despite this, the Core i7-13800H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-13800H has slightly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 7900 that has 12 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900 has more threads than the Core i7-13800H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7900 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13800H. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900 has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i7-13800H. The Ryzen 9 7900 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 7900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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