13600KF&13700KF&7800X3D experience: mainstream CPU smash bros., game creation I want!
preface
In today's CPU market, the 13th generation Core and Ryzen 7000 series have all been unveiled, and the two are also needle-to-needle. The former has the advantages of multi-core and multi-threading, and the latter also has 3D V-Cache technology, and the game performance is also quite superior. Therefore, it also makes many players entangled, not knowing who to choose? At present, the mainstream installation choice is the cost-effective i5-13600KF, there are also higher-end i7-13700KF, and of course, the 7800X3D, which is known as a game special, so who is the best in your heart? This article will take you to find out.
Specification comparison
Before experiencing them, you must always have a clear understanding of them, here is a simple comparison of some of the specifications of the three processors:
First of all, the biggest difference between the three is the gap in the number of cores, i7-13700KF has 8 P-Cores and 8 E-Cores, a total of 16 cores and 24 threads, i5-13600KF is 6 P-Cores and 8 E-Cores, a total of 14 cores and 20 threads, while Ryzen 7 7800X3D only has 8 cores and 16 threads, and the two CPUs of the Intel camp have an absolute advantage in the number of cores.
The second difference is frequency, as we all know, the 7800X3D introduces 3D V-Cache technology, which is more sensitive to voltage, and AMD has not been aggressive enough in terms of frequency. Therefore, even the 7800X3D, known as the game god U, is limited to 5GHz, or even 0.4GHz lower than the 7700X. In contrast, Intel's i7-13700KF, P-Core can achieve 5.4GHz, even the all-core has 5.3GHz, and even the mid-range i5-13600KF can easily reach 5.1GHz.
Cache capacity is also one of their differences, the biggest difference is the 7800X3D L3 cache, which reaches 96MB, which is quite bluffing, but this also gives it a certain advantage in terms of game performance. However, Intel is not weak, whether it is i5-13600KF or i7-13700KF, their L1 and L2 caches are larger, basically two or three times that of 7800X3D, which also gives Intel an advantage in single-core and multi-core.
The last difference is the support for memory, the two CPUs of the Intel platform can support DDR4 and DDR5 memory at the same time, as for AMD's 7800X3D can only use DDR5 memory, although there is the ability to fight the future, but the installation cost will indeed be relatively high.
Introduction to the test platform
In addition to taking you to see Intel's Core i5-13600KF and Core i7-13700KF, we will also add the AMD 7800X3D, which is known as the gaming god U by players. This allows players to more intuitively understand the real strength of Intel's two CPUs.
Among them, the two CPUs of the Intel platform use MSI MEG Z790 ACE motherboard, and the graphics card is matched with the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti often used by mainstream players, and the memory is also directly full, plugged in two 16GB Kingston DDR5-6000 memory, and the timing is C36.
The AMD platform is also the top configuration, MSI MEG X670E ACE + GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, the memory is 6000MHz C36 DDR5 memory with EXPO enabled. At the same time, both platforms use MSI's MSI Ai1300P PCIe 5.0 power supply and AIO 360 integrated water cooling to ensure that all three CPUs and other hardware can unleash their full performance.
Theoretical performance testing
After the installation is completed, let's take a look at the theoretical performance of the three processors.
CPU-Z performance test
First of all, the international practice, in the CPU-Z performance test, i7-13700KF single-core performance score of 877, multi-core performance score of 12397.8, this score has surpassed the previous generation of i9-12900K; i5-13600KF score is single-core 833.6, multi-core 9779.1, the performance is also excellent. As for AMD's 7800X3D, it was hung by two Intel CPUs, and the results of single-core 697.3 and multi-core 7303.3 are indeed not enough to see. Looking at the table data, the multi-core performance of i7-13700KF is 70% ahead of the 7800X3D, which is almost doubled!
CineBench performance test
Cinebench is also a tool for testing CPU single-core and multi-core performance, and in Cinebench R20, two Intel CPUs easily surpass the 7800X3D next door with more cores and threads. i5-13600KF single-core score 764, multi-core score 8879, 9% and 25% higher than 7800X3D, respectively; The more powerful i7-13700KF is single-core 809, multi-core 11360, and multi-core is even 35% higher than i5-13600KF.
In the CineBench R23, the performance benefits are even more pronounced. Just look at the i5-13600KF to know the strength of the Intel platform, and the single-core score is 5% higher than the 7800X3D. Look at the i7-13700KF, its single-core performance is 10% stronger than the i5-13600KF, and the multi-core is more than 60% more than 7800X3D, so if you want productivity, Intel is your best choice.
7ZIP data compression and decompression test
The 7Zip score can reflect the integer computing performance of the CPU, and 80% of the daily application computer is integer data calculation, so this test data is still very meaningful.
The advantages of multi-core multi-thread are still obvious, and this is also verified in the compression and decompression test of 7-Zip, which can be seen in the test process that the 16-thread of i5-13600KF is fully fired, and the speed can reach 112326KB/s when compressing, scoring 128.5GIPS and the speed of decompression is stronger, which can reach 1452532KB/s and score 129.237GIPS.
The i7-13700KF is even more amazing, and the advantage of 24 threads is even greater. The speed can reach 133556KB/s during compression, and the decompression speed is stronger, reaching 1822735KB/s. On the other hand, the 7800X3D performance is relatively mediocre, only in the decompression test to beat the i5-13600KF, and in other tests can not beat this i5-13600KF that is 1000 yuan cheaper than it.
AIDA64 Cache&Memory
AIDA64 Cache & Memory test part, due to the innovation of the 13th generation Core processor architecture, the IMC constitution of the i5-13600KF processor has made certain progress, with DDR5-6000MHz memory, the read and write and copy latency performance is 86746MB/s, 83911MB/s, 83029MB/ s and 72.8ns, i7-13700KF performance is even better, read and write and copy latency performance of 93328MB/s, 83394MB/s, 84519MB/s and 72ns, it can be seen that the 13th generation Core processor has made great progress in memory read and write performance.
Turn to look at AMD next door, although it has recently been said that AMD's Ryzen 7000 series processor can also DDR5 on high frequencies, but there is one thing to say, under the same frequency, the performance gap is still relatively obvious. Under DDR5-6000MHz, the performance of reading, writing, and copying is 59307MB/s, 79696MB/s, and 59619MB/s.
Of course, Intel is not only that, the two Intel platform CPUs have a lot of advantages in memory, the measured i5-13600KF and i7-13700KF can easily achieve DDR5-7200MHz and DDR5-7600MHz results, and the timing is still quite low, only C36, at this time the read and write is no longer in MB/s as a unit, but directly leapfrog to GB/s, the delay is even lower, That's all heights that the 7800X3D can't reach.
And the Intel platform also supports DDR4 memory, I believe that many players should have D4 memory in their hands, with a good dedicated graphics can not only get better game performance, but also cost-effective than the D5 memory platform.
Author productivity tests
Content creation capabilities are more important to everyone in recent years, including processors, graphics cards, memory, and storage will directly affect the content creation capabilities of the whole machine.
UL Procyon Creation Performance Test
Let's start with UL Procyon's test, which includes a variety of modes, with the video editing test showing the best creative productivity. The i5-13600KF and i7-13700KF outperform the 7800X3D by more than 9% and 12%, respectively, in tasks involving multithreading.
The Office Productivity benchmark in UL uses Microsoft Office applications to simulate everyday office scenarios. From the actual measurement results, I believe you also know what to choose, each test, even i5-13600KF can easily lead the 7800X3D by more than 10%, and even some projects can go to 20%-30%! It can be said that the i5-13600KF and i7-13700KF will be more suitable for productivity creation.
PugetBench authoring performance test
A more professional creative performance test is Pugetbench, this time we will choose Pugetbench for After Effects, Pugetbench for Premiere Pro, Pugetbench for Photoshop, Pugetbench for Lightroom, and Pugetbench for DaVinci for testing.
After testing, we used the R7-7800X3D as a 100% benchmark, and as you can see from the figure, Intel has an unparalleled advantage in creative performance. In the more single-core Ps, the i5-13600KF can beat the 7800X3D, and the performance in Lightroom is just as good, and the lead can be extended to 11%. In AE and Da Vinci, the i7-13700KF with more cores has the advantage of being better, and the performance advantage can be extended to nearly 20%.
Of course, the PR also performs well, but the i5-13600KF and i7-13700KF do not have a core display, otherwise they can lead more. I believe you have also seen that the two platforms built by Intel have stable performance in creative performance, and the performance is even more superb.
Professional productivity testing
Since it is productivity, it is certainly not only video content creation productivity, but also many hardcore users will use tools such as 3D rendering, so we also tested some popular rendering tools to see how these CPUs perform.
Blender Benchmark
Blender's test mainly considers CPU and GPU rendering performance, and the test is divided into three parts. They are monster, junkshop and classroom three scenarios, of which i5-13600KF and i7-13700KF are the most obvious in the scene, which is also due to the multi-core and multi-threaded design. i5-13600KF alone can achieve a performance lead of 12-13%, switching to i7-13700KF, that is completely crushing level, up to 45% lead completely stepping on the pain points of productivity workers, strong performance and cost performance both surpass 7800X3D.
V-Ray rendering test
V-Ray Benchmark is also a stand-alone rendering speed test software that tests the efficiency and speed of hardware execution during rendering operations. Looking at the results first, in V-Ray 4, the i5-13600KF test result is 23640 ksamples, and the i7-13700KF is 30723 ksamples, both of which are stronger than the 7800X3D.
Switching to the more stressed V-Ray 5, the CPUs of the two Intel platforms are getting more and more courageous, further extending the lead, i5-13600KF is about 10% ahead of 7800X3D, and i7-13700KF is 30% higher than i5-13600KF!
Comprehensive scenario testing
We have tested theory and productivity, but there is still daily use experience. This is for everyone to see~
CrossMark
The first is CrossMark, a comprehensive testing software that reflects the productivity, creativity and responsiveness of the platform, while also supporting Windows, MacOS and other platforms. This time we are using the BPN Pro version, and the data tested is more accurate than the free version.
As with the performance of our previous theoretical performance test, the performance of the i7-13700KF processor is still the best one, in the same case of the platform, compared to the i5-13600KF, it can bring a 10% performance improvement, and compared to the 7800X3D is about 20% higher, and the lead of some projects is even close to 40%.
PCMark 10 Extended
Next is the PCMark 10 that players are familiar with, this time we use PCMark 10 Extended version for testing, which almost covers the comprehensive experience of office, web browsing, productivity creation, games and other aspects, which can reflect the actual performance of the platform in detail.
Obviously, i5-13600KF and i7-13700KF surpass the 7800X3D in office, web browsing, productivity creation, etc., which are very consistent with the above tests, and the overall performance is 4% and 7% ahead of the 7800X3D processor respectively. As for the game, the performance gap is not large, but the game performance is not strong, and it depends on the actual game performance.
Game performance testing
Now that we've talked about games, let's start the game test that everyone has in mind.
3DMark testing
In the DX11-based Fire Strike test, the i5-13600KF was about 15% ahead of the 7800X3D on average, while the i7-13700KF was even more outrageous, with a leap forward of 35%.
In the Time Spy test represented by DX12, Intel's two CPUs are equally good, and if the 7800X3D is used as the benchmark, the i5-13600KF and i7-13700KF are 30% and 60% ahead respectively.
In the same CPU-Profile test, i5-13600KF and i7-13700KF lived up to expectations, in the largest thread test project, i7-13700KF with the innate advantage of 24 threads, leading 7800X3D by 57%, i5-13600KF 20 threads can also be 26% stronger.
1080P resolution performance test
Next is the actual game test, in order to better tap the performance gap of the three CPUs, we first use 1080P resolution to test. First of all, look at the i7-13700KF and 7800X3D, the performance of the two of them, can not be said to be exactly the same, can only be completely consistent! In various large 3A, the frame rate of both is between millimeters, such as the pressured cyberpunk 2077, i7-13700KF not only does not lose the average frame, but also 1% Low frame is 31% higher, which also means that your game experience will be smoother.
On the other hand, i5-13600KF, although slightly behind 7800X3D in some games, but the difference in frame rate is basically more than 10 frames, in the game of one or two hundred frames is indeed difficult to feel, the actual game experience is quite good, can be said to be a cost-effective mainstream game CPU.
2K resolution performance testing
Of course, in order to be more in line with the actual experience of players, we also tested the above game again at 2K resolution, but I don't know, I was shocked, I thought that i5-13600KF would be a position worse than 7800X3D, i7-13700KF, but I didn't expect that after the increase in resolution, the gap between the three narrowed, and the average frame of most games was 1%-3% gap. Even in some performance-eating 3A masterpieces, the two Intel processors can also get higher frame rate performance, such as "Metro Departure: Enhanced Edition", i5-13600KF and i7-13700KF are 14% higher than the 7800X3D.
In general, in the several games we have tested, Intel's i5-13600KF and i7-13700KF did not lose 7800X3D, and even some projects have played back and forth, if your goal is 2K games, then i5-13600KF can definitely meet you; Of course, if you are pursuing a more top-of-the-line gaming experience, then I think the i7-13700KF with more cores and more threads can make you feel silky in 2K or even 4K.
The stability of the whole machine is run and tested
Finally, the FPU oven, at room temperature of 24 degrees, use AIDA 64 software to perform Stress FPU stability test, you can consider the CPU performance release effect and stability.
In the process of testing, you can see that all the cores of the i5-13600KF processor in the hardware monitor have reached a fully loaded state, of which the performance P core runs full 5GHz, and the energy-efficient E core is also turbocharged to 3.9GHz close to 4GHz, but this result is obviously overloaded, players can not reach such a high load in daily use, and the temperature will also fall.
The more advanced i7-13700KF is also quite good, with the P-cores all stable at 5.3GHz and the E-cores all stable at 4.2GHz, which is completely worthy of its high-end specifications. And due to the upgrade of the process technology and the innovation of the architecture, the temperature of the two CPUs has been at a reasonable level, the whole process is stable at about 80 °C, and the power consumption of 260W is also quite good.
On the other hand, AMD next door, since the update of the Ryzen 7000 series processor, although the power consumption is lower, but this is the reason for the frequency reduction, the 7800X3D first baked the frequency to 4.3GHz, this level is only similar to the i7-13700KF E core. If you want it to run away, then power consumption and temperature are another problem. After all, the original Ryzen 7000 series had a problem of heat accumulation, and now there is a 3D V-Cache such a large heating household, it is difficult to think of low temperature.
Write at the end
After the actual measurement, I feel that AMD's 7800X3D is indeed better than the i5-13600KF and i7-13700KF of the Intel camp in some games, but Intel is also significantly ahead of 7800X3D in games that focus on CPU strength, as for large 3A games, the game performance of the two can be said to be five or five, basically within 10 frames. If players don't turn on FPS records like us, it's hard to feel it in the actual game.
Therefore, playing games still depends on the graphics card, and the game performance of these three CPUs has also been seen. If you want better gaming performance, invest your budget in a graphics card. In terms of controlling the budget, Intel has an absolute advantage, AMD's 7800X3D due to cost and capacity problems, its price until today is more than 3000, in contrast to Intel's i5-13600KF and i7-13700KF, even if it is boxed, it is only 2189 yuan and 2949 yuan, if you choose loose film, the price will be more advantageous.
Looking at the motherboard that goes with it, the motherboard of AMD next door can be said to have no advantages at all. Coupled with AMD's heat accumulation problem, you also invest more in the choice of heatsink. And can only choose DDR5 memory, Intel, if you are shy, you can continue to use DDR4, so in terms of construction cost, Intel's i5-13600KF and i7-13700KF are obviously better choices.
The above is only as a game party, if you in addition to playing games, there is a demand for productivity, then really I think Intel is the more rational choice, these two CPUs are cheaper than 7800X3D, productivity performance is also stronger, and in rendering, compression, transcoding, etc., Intel camp's i7-13700KF can be said to crush 7800X3D, and the performance is more than 20-30% stronger than i5-13600KF. Of course, the i5-13600KF is not weak, and defeating the 7800X3D is also easy.
In general, in all aspects, if players pursue high cost performance, they can choose 13600KF, 12 cores and 20 threads can definitely meet your needs for games. If you want more powerful performance, the 13700KF has a higher core frequency and more core threads, making creation and production smoother. There is always one of the two CPUs to meet your needs!