
With excellent single-core clocks and great multicore performance, the 13700K is not a processor to be ignored and if you plan to pair it with a GPU, it might be worth considering its slightly cheaper GPU-less variant on offer, the Intel Core i7 13700KF instead. The Intel Core i7 13700K, while not Intel's fastest chip, follows closely behind as the penultimate offering to the Intel Core i9 13900K thanks to the same amount of P-Cores and marginally slower clock speed on offer which puts it within spitting distance of the 24-core Rocket Lake flagship in most benchmarks, particularly gaming. It does pack a potent punch as part of its 16-core, 24-thread offerings that make it seem like a slightly better clocked and optimized 12th gen Core i9 12900K with the obvious pricing benefits in play.

#Ryzen 7 vs i7 series#
The Intel Core i7 13700K is Intel's high-end CPU offering as part of its 13th generation Rocket Lake-based desktop processor offerings, powered by a Big.Little 8+8 core configuration of performance cores(P-Cores) and efficiency cores (E-Cores) that work with both Intel's 6XX series (12th gen) and 7XX series (13th gen) motherboards. It has also aggressively pushed game bundles alongside AMD's offerings for its 13th gen Rocket Lake-based CPUs to avoid ceding important space in the enthusiast tier to Team Red. It has pushed out the Intel Core i9 13900KS as the first official 6GHz CPU (based on a better-binned model of the Intel Core i9 13900K) in a bid to retain its performance crown and the optics to go with it. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D directly takes on Intel's highest-end Core i7 and Core i9 offerings for gaming, winning more of its duels than it concedes thanks to its large 96MB 元 cache allowing it to bring superior gaming performance to its octa-core offerings. The tip of AMD's spear as part of its X3D push is the Ryzen 7 7800X3D which was understandably held back until the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and 7900X3D were snapped up by early adopters with a very good reason: Its simply that good at gaming.


We currently see a similar switch as Intel's 13th gen CPUs dominated the gaming and desktop performance computing segments with AMD's 7000 series CPUs being relegated to better value for money and performance per watt.ĪMD has since hit back with its X3D CPUs that capture the flag at the top of the all-important enthusiast gaming segment that has seen considerable competition in the past few years with Intel going for a high IPC, high clock approach as AMD aims for a more efficiency-centric play backed by its 3D V-Cache since the 5800X3D to balance the odds. Both competitors have historically switched their strengths multiple times with them interchangeably offering more efficiency, processing power, gaming performance, and value for money. As we move to the summer, the competition between Intel & AMD is as tough now as it has ever been between the two semiconductor rivals historically.
