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Intel Core i7-13700

37,135 Benchmark Score

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The Intel Core i7-13700 paired with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 is a desktop combination that sits firmly in the upper tier of the database: the CPU holds the 85th percentile against all tracked processors, the GPU lands at the 73rd percentile against all tracked graphics cards, and the pairing as a whole ranks in the 79th percentile. The CPU brings 16 cores and 24 threads of Raptor Lake-S silicon to the table, while the GPU contributes 24 GB of GDDR6X memory and Ampere-class ray tracing hardware. It is a productivity-first pairing with a graphics card that, while now end-of-life, still clears high-refresh gaming at mainstream resolutions. No measured frame-rate data exists for this exact CPU+GPU combination in the database, so all FPS discussion below is estimated from the benchmark scores rather than drawn from recorded gameplay results.

Usage Scenarios

High-refresh gaming. The RTX 3090's PassMark G3D score of 26,645 places it within half a percent of cards like the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile (deltaPct 0.5) and the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT (deltaPct 0.5), which defines its gaming class precisely. At 1080p and 1440p, the estimated frame rates should be high enough for high-refresh monitors in most titles, with the i7-13700's single-thread PassMark score of 4,101 and physics score of 2,053 providing the per-core speed that fast-paced competitive games demand. At 4K the GPU becomes the limiter, though the 936.2 GB/s of memory bandwidth keeps texture-heavy scenes fed.

Streaming. Streaming while gaming requires spare CPU headroom, and the i7-13700's 16 cores and 24 threads deliver it: a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 25,369 against a single-core score of 2,008.5 shows the scaling available when encode workloads run alongside the game. The GPU's 328 tensor cores also open up NVENC-based encoding paths, offloading stream compression from the CPU entirely.

Video editing. The RTX 3090's 24 GB of GDDR6X is the headline here — timeline scrubbing with high-resolution footage, multi-cam edits, and GPU-accelerated effects all benefit from the large frame buffer and the 936.2 GB/s bandwidth behind it. The Geekbench OpenCL score of 172,758 and Vulkan compute score of 53,927 indicate strong throughput in GPU-accelerated editing and color work, while the CPU's 3DMark max-threads score of 11,737 supports timeline renders that lean on the processor.

3D rendering. Rendering is where this pairing earns its percentile ranking. The i7-13700 posts a Cinebench R20 multi-core score of 12,806 and a Geekbench multi-core score of 17,025, while the RTX 3090's 82 RT cores and 35.58 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput handle viewport work and GPU render engines. The 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 5,118 confirms the GPU holds up under heavy rasterization and compute loads typical of render previews.

Software development. Compilation is a throughput workload, and the 24 threads on tap here matter: the PassMark multithread score of 36,387 and the integer math score of 138,974 reflect the kind of parallel performance that shortens large builds. A single-thread PassMark score of 4,101 keeps IDE responsiveness and single-threaded test suites quick. The dual-channel DDR4/DDR5 memory support is standard for the platform and adequate for build workloads.

Student and office work. For everyday work — documents, browsing, video calls — this hardware is overkill in the best way. The CPU's 85th percentile position means snappy application launches and effortless multitasking, and the integrated UHD Graphics 770 provides a display fallback should the discrete card ever be removed. The 65 W TDP rating keeps the processor efficient under light loads.

FAQ

Q: Is the Intel Core i7-13700 good for gaming?

A: Yes. Its single-thread PassMark score of 4,101 and physics score of 2,053 place it in the 85th percentile of all tracked CPUs, and the boost clock of 5.20 GHz gives games the per-core speed they need. In GPU-bound scenarios the RTX 3090 does the heavy lifting, but the CPU will not be the weak link at 1080p or 1440p.

Q: How much memory does the RTX 3090 have, and does it matter?

A: 24 GB of GDDR6X on a 384-bit bus, delivering 936.2 GB/s of bandwidth. This matters for 3D rendering, video editing with high-resolution footage, and AI/compute workloads — the Geekbench OpenCL score of 172,758 shows the card's compute throughput. For pure gaming at 1080p, the buffer is more than most titles can use.

Q: Can this build stream games while playing them?

A: Comfortably. The CPU's 24 threads and Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 25,369 leave substantial headroom for encoding alongside gameplay, and the 328 tensor cores on the GPU enable hardware encoding as an alternative path.

Q: What power supply does this pairing need?

A: The GPU's suggested PSU rating is 750 W, driven by the card's 350 W TDP. The CPU adds a 65 W TDP rating on top. The 750 W figure is the reference the database provides for this graphics card.

Q: How does the i7-13700 compare to its nearest rivals?

A: The database's nearest-rival list shows it essentially tied with the AMD Ryzen 7 160 (deltaPct 0), the Intel Core i9-12900T (deltaPct 0.1), the AMD Ryzen 7 7735H (deltaPct -0.1), and the AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 450 (deltaPct 0.1). Its average benchmark score of 37,135 is within rounding distance of all four.

Q: Is the RTX 3090 still in production?

A: No. Its production status is listed as end-of-life. It launched on August 31, 2020 with a launch MSRP of 1,499 USD, and the GeForce 40 series is its listed successor. Its benchmark scores remain the relevant measure of its current capability.

Q: Can the CPU be overclocked?

A: No — the multiplier is locked on this part. Performance tuning is limited to memory and platform-level adjustments rather than multiplier overclocking.

Upgrade Path and Platform

The i7-13700 sits on Intel Socket 1700, which gives the platform a defined upgrade lane within Intel's desktop lineup. Memory support covers both DDR4 and DDR5 on a dual-channel bus, so builders can carry over existing DDR4 kits or step into DDR5 — and ECC memory is supported, an unusual feature that suits workstation use where data integrity matters. For expansion, the CPU provides PCIe Gen 5 with 16 lanes directly from the processor, while the RTX 3090 itself uses a PCIe 4.0 x16 bus interface, meaning the card runs at its full rated link speed on this platform.

On the GPU side, the sensible next step is within NVIDIA's own lineage: the GeForce 40 series is the listed successor to the RTX 3090's generation. A GPU upgrade is the clear priority for gaming performance, since the combined 79th percentile is more constrained by the GPU's 73rd percentile position than the CPU's 85th. The card itself is a triple-slot design, 336 mm long and 140 mm tall, drawing power through a single 12-pin connector — case clearance and a modern PSU with the right connector or adapter are prerequisites for the current card and any beefy successor.

Power headroom is dictated by the GPU: a 750 W suggested PSU against the card's 350 W TDP and the CPU's 65 W TDP rating. That leaves comfortable margin for the rest of the system and transient spikes, and it also means a future GPU swap within similar power envelopes would not require a new power supply.

Balance and Bottleneck

This pairing is mildly GPU-leaning in its balance. The CPU occupies the 85th percentile against all processors while the GPU sits at the 73rd percentile against all graphics cards — a gap of twelve percentile points that tells you where the ceiling is in GPU-bound workloads.

At lower resolutions, the calculus inverts. Gaming at 1080p shifts the load toward the processor, and here the i7-13700's credentials are strong: a 3DMark single-thread score of 1,092, an 8-thread score of 7,649, and a physics score of 2,053 all indicate the CPU can drive high frame rates when the GPU allows it. The scaling from 2 threads (2,176) to 4 threads (4,279) to 8 threads (7,649) in 3DMark shows near-linear scaling through the mid-thread counts, which is exactly the behavior game engines exploit.

At 1440p and 4K, the RTX 3090 becomes the governing component. Its G3D score of 26,645 keeps it competitive — within 0.5 percent of the RTX 4070 Mobile and RX 6700 XT, and within about 1 percent of the Radeon RX 7800M (deltaPct -1.1) — but it cannot pull away from its rivals either. In productivity, the bottleneck disappears: the CPU's 3DMark max-threads score of 11,737 and PassMark multithread score of 36,387 show the 24 threads are fully available for rendering, compilation, and batch processing, workloads where the GPU contributes only when an application specifically calls for compute.

Gaming Performance

This database entry contains no measured FPS rows for the i7-13700 and RTX 3090 combination — the measuredFps dataset is empty for this pairing — so the figures discussed here are estimates derived from the benchmark scores, not recorded results.

What the scores suggest is a card capable of high-refresh gameplay at 1080p and 1440p, and playable ultra-settings performance at 4K in most titles. The RTX 3090's class position — tied within half a percent of the RTX 4070 Mobile and RX 6700 XT on average score — frames the expectation: this is upper-mainstream-to-enthusiast performance by current database standards, not halo-tier. The 10,496 shading units, 82 RT cores, and 35.58 TFLOPS of FP32 throughput provide the raw rasterization and ray tracing capacity, and the 936.2 GB/s of memory bandwidth prevents the 24 GB buffer from becoming a straw.

The CPU side supports whatever the GPU can deliver. High-refresh 1080p gaming is a per-core workload, and the i7-13700's single-thread PassMark score of 4,101 combined with a 5.20 GHz boost clock means the processor can feed frames as fast as the GPU can render them in the majority of titles. API support is complete: DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), Vulkan 1.4, and OpenGL 4.6 cover every modern engine, and the 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 5,118 provides a direct measure of modern-API performance. In ray-tracing-heavy or DLSS-enabled scenarios, the 328 tensor cores add headroom that raw raster scores do not capture.

Who Should Build It

High-refresh 1080p and 1440p gamers are well served: the GPU's benchmark position supports high frame rates at these resolutions, and the CPU's single-thread scores ensure no processor-side ceiling. 4K gamers will find it capable but should temper expectations given the 73rd percentile ranking.

Content creators are arguably the best fit. Video editors get the 24 GB frame buffer and 172,758 OpenCL score for GPU-accelerated timelines; 3D artists get 82 RT cores for viewport rendering and a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 25,369 for final CPU renders. The card's end-of-life status matters less here than its raw capability.

Software developers benefit from 24 threads and the 36,387 PassMark multithread score, particularly on large compilations and parallel test suites. The PassMark data compression score of 443,900 and encryption score of 25,653 also matter for build pipelines and repository operations.

Students and small business workstations round out the audience. ECC memory support — rare on consumer desktop platforms — makes this a legitimate choice for small-office machines handling sensitive data, and the integrated UHD Graphics 770 provides redundancy if the discrete card is ever pulled from service.

CPU Analysis

The Core i7-13700 is a 16-core, 24-thread Raptor Lake-S processor built on Intel's 10 nm process at a foundry Intel operates itself. The die measures 257 mm². Its hybrid configuration combines performance and efficiency cores into a 65 W TDP envelope — a modest rating for a chip of this throughput — with a 2.10 GHz base clock and a 5.20 GHz boost. The multiplier is locked, so the performance on the page is the performance you get.

The cache hierarchy is generous: 80 KB of L1 and 2 MB of L2 per core, with 30 MB of shared L3 feeding all 16 cores. That L3 pool is what keeps the multi-threaded scores from starving for data — the 3DMark thread scaling from 1,092 single-thread to 11,737 at max threads shows throughput growing more than tenfold as threads are added, a sign that the cache and memory subsystem keep pace with the cores.

What the scores mean in practice: a Geekbench multi-core score of 17,025 against a single-core score of 2,329 gives a multi-to-single ratio of roughly 7.3, reflecting a chip that is simultaneously fast in lightly threaded tasks and strong in heavily threaded ones. The Cinebench lineage — 3,692 multi in R15, 12,806 in R20, 25,369 in R23 — shows consistency across benchmark generations, which indicates genuine throughput rather than benchmark-specific optimization. The PassMark extended instructions score of 26,578 confirms strong AVX-class vector throughput for workloads that use it. The 85th percentile position against all tracked CPUs is the summary: this is a top-quartile desktop processor with no significant weakness in either threading regime.

Build Overview

This is a desktop build (buildClass: desktop) pairing a current-production Intel desktop CPU with a previous-generation, end-of-life NVIDIA flagship GPU. The CPU launched on January 3, 2023 at a launch MSRP of $384; the GPU launched August 31, 2020 at a launch MSRP of 1,499 USD. One component is active, the other retired — a common pattern where a proven high-end card is paired with a newer mainstream processor.

The tier is defined by the percentiles: CPU at 85, GPU at 73, combined at 79. Read together, this is a strong upper-tier desktop that tilts toward productivity and content creation rather than pure gaming extremes. The pairing makes internal sense — a top-quartile processor feeding an above-average GPU — with neither component dramatically overshooting or undershooting the other.

Benchmark Performance

The CPU's headline numbers: 3DMark scores of 1,092 (single-thread), 2,176 (2 threads), 4,279 (4 threads), 7,649 (8 threads), 10,075 (16 threads), and 11,737 (max threads). Cinebench scores of 285/3,692 in R15, 1,807/12,806 in R20, and 2,008.5/25,369 in R23. Geekbench scores of 2,329 single-core and 17,025 multi-core. PassMark totals of 4,101 single-thread and 36,387 multithread, with physics at 2,053, integer math at 138,974, floating point at 97,723, and data compression at 443,900. The average benchmark score across the suite is 37,135, placing it dead even with the Ryzen 7 160 (deltaPct 0), a tenth of a point ahead of the i9-12900T (deltaPct 0.1), a tenth behind the Ryzen 7 7735H (deltaPct -0.1), and a tenth ahead of the Ryzen AI 7 PRO 450 (deltaPct 0.1).

The GPU's headline numbers: PassMark G3D of 26,645, GPU compute of 15,356, Geekbench OpenCL of 172,758, Geekbench Vulkan of 53,927, and 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 of 5,118. The average score is 27,565, half a percent ahead of the RTX 4070 Mobile (deltaPct 0.5) and RX 6700 XT (deltaPct 0.5), and about one percent behind the Radeon Pro Vega 20 (deltaPct -1) and RX 7800M (deltaPct -1.1).

The combined picture is coherent: a 79th percentile desktop whose CPU provides top-quartile throughput across every threading level and whose GPU provides above-average rasterization, very strong compute, and an exceptionally large 24 GB memory pool. For gaming it estimates into the high-refresh band at 1080p and 1440p; for creation and compute workloads it is a materially stronger proposition, and that is where this pairing makes its case.

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