AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D vs Intel Core i7-13790F

Ryzen 9 7900X3D vs Core i7-13790F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13790F beats the Ryzen 9 7900X3D in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7900X3D 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 7900X3D has 12 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13790F. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-13790F. The Ryzen 9 7900X3D 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 7900X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.