In our PugetBench-plugin tests using Adobe's popular Photoshop and Premiere Pro, the Core i7-13700K actually traded blows with the Ryzen 9 7950X, winning on one of the two. Typically we'd consider this a draw, but considering their very different prices, the Intel chip is clearly the better value option here. We also saw the Core i7-13700K outpace the Ryzen 9 7950X in our HandBrake and single-threaded POV-Ray tests, though the AMD processor posted countering wins with faster Blender and multi-threaded POV-Ray scores. Intel was able to take what made the 12700K so good and crank it up to 11, extracting even more out of the older architecture. When Intel manages to once again compete on the process node front, we're likely to see yet more efficiency gains. Intel processor numbers are not a measure of performance. Processor numbers differentiate features within each processor family, not across different processor families. See http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/processor-numbers.html for details. The TDP of the Intel Core i7-13700 is 65 watts in PL1. Intel defines the PL2 limit at 219 watts. If the restrictions regarding power consumption are deactivated in the BIOS, the PL2 value can be reached permanently and even exceeded with good cooling. However, a high-quality and powerful cooling unit should be used for this. The Core i7-13700K is notably power-hungry, drawing 364 watts (W) of total system power in Cinebench and 544W in Adobe Premiere. That's more than any of the AMD processors and all the Intel competitors except the Core i9-13900K. However, its power draw in Cinebench was only 1 watt more than the Core i7-12700K's, which is superb given the increase in core count.

Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics only: to use the Intel® Iris® Xe brand, the system must be populated with 128-bit (dual channel) memory. Otherwise, use the Intel® UHD brand.The Core i7-13700K has the same 125W Processor Base Power (PBP - the amount of power the chip pulls when it isn't in a fully boosted state) as the previous-gen Core i7-12700K. However, Intel increased the Maximum Turbo Power (MTP), the maximum amount of power the chip can draw when in a boosted state. The new 253W limit is a whopping 63W increase over the prior-gen Core i7-12700K (33% increase). In Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, the Core i7-13700K didn't fare quite as well, falling a few frames behind the older Alder Lake processors as well as (more predictably) the Intel Core i9-13900K and the AMD Ryzen 7 7700. The trend continued with Total War: Three Kingdoms, with the Core i7-13700K once again bested by all the 12th Gen Intel chips and more of the Ryzen 7000 series as well. Again, most of the differences fell within the margin of error, though the Ryzen 9 7950X3D clearly demonstrated its supremacy, finishing 4% ahead of the Core i7-13700K. If you have a very high-end GPU and differences in frame rate of 5% or so are your concern, you may want to look at one of the AMD gaming-focused specialty chips to squeeze out every last drop.

Processors that support 64-bit computing on Intel® architecture require an Intel 64 architecture-enabled BIOS. Compared to the Intel Core i7-12700, the IPC of the new Core i7-13700 has been increased slightly. At the same time, the 4 additional E-cores now provide slightly more performance for multi-threaded tasks. This puts the Intel Core i7-13700 at the level of an Intel Core i9-12900K, which also offers a total of 24 threads. The 13th Gen series is even more impressive, outright beating AMD's latest offerings with an older, less efficient manufacturing node. This is apparent with the power draw. Intel's Core i7-13700K is more power-hungry than the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X, but you're getting a considered boost in performance. Intel lost favor with the PC-building community because of how stagnant its processor development grew over the years. With the rise of AMD Ryzen, Intel was forced to innovate once again and the new hybrid core architecture is a step in the right direction with how capable 12th Gen Intel processors were against Ryzen 5000.Max Turbo Frequency refers to the maximum single-core processor frequency that can be achieved with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology. See www.intel.com/technology/turboboost/ for more information and applicability of this technology. Intel also increased the 13700K's L2 cache from 1.25MB to 2MB for each p-core and doubled the amount of L2 cache for each cluster of e-cores to 4MB. Intel also added 5MB of additional L3 cache.