Intel Core i7 13700K Review

Blender 3.3.0

Blender Open Data is a platform to collect, display and query the results of hardware and software performance tests – provided by the Blender community.

Available now on Blender.

In rendering tests, we see a healthy uplift in performance generation to generation, while the 7900X manages to pull ahead of the 13700K by just over 5%. They always say in the production world that time is money, so you’d need to decide if that 5% is worth the extra 22% in cost.

Cinebench R23

Cinebench is a real-world cross-platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s hardware capabilities. Improvements to Cinebench Release 23 reflect the overall advancements to CPU and rendering technology in recent years, providing a more accurate measurement of Cinema 4D’s ability to take advantage of multiple CPU cores and modern processor features available to the average user. Best of all: It’s free.

Available now on Maxon.

Moving onto everyone’s favourite, Cinebench, and in single-core performance, Intel has clearly worked on things, as the higher clock speeds really do see a large increase in performance over the last generation, though more interesting than that is how the 13700K comes in 5% faster than the 7950X and 6.5% faster than the 7900X. Maybe they can make up for it in multi-core performance?

Corona 1.3

Test and compare the performance of your CPU using this free benchmark application, which is built upon Corona Renderer 1.3.

Available now on Corona

In Corona, we again see a decent increase in performance when compared to the previous generation, and again find that it’s enough to edge ahead of the more expensive 7900X, while the 7950X furthers its lead, though we will be looking at exactly how that compares to the i9 13900K in future content, so you won’t want to miss that.

Keyshot Viewer 11.2.1

KeyShot Viewer is a free, stand-alone desktop application that enables secure sharing of KeyShot scenes for interactive, photo-realistic 3D model viewing, presentation and configuration, using the same real-time ray tracing render engine as KeyShot to produce amazing visuals with speed and quality.

Available now on KeyShot.

In Keyshot Viewer, that battle between the 7900X and 13700K is heating up as they both come in with very similar scores, which again, due to the extra cost from the 7900X, I can’t not see the 13700K as the victor in this test.

V-Ray 5.00.20

V-Ray® Benchmark is a free standalone application to test how fast your system renders. It’s simple, fast and includes three render engine test.

Available now on Chaos.

In V-Ray, again, it’s a very close fight between the 7900X and 13700K with the Ryzen CPU just coming out on top, again, by a small margin of less than 3%, so at least from a value for money perspective, I’m just not seeing AMD as doing enough.