AMD Ryzen 9 7900X vs Intel Core i7-13790F

Ryzen 9 7900X vs Core i7-13790F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900X beats the Core i7-13790F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-13790F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-13790F has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7900X has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-13790F. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-13790F. The Ryzen 9 7900X 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 7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.