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Rate My PC: Intel Core i7-13700E + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

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85 / 100
HIGH-END

Power Build

Top 15% of systems. Excellent for 1440p Ultra or 4K High gaming.

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System Balance Analysis

CPU vs GPU performance ratio
Well Balanced
CPU
78%
VS
GPU
92%
PROCESSOR

Intel Core i7-13700E

7,957 Benchmark Score
Top 22% Market Ranking
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GRAPHICS CARD

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080

23,172 Benchmark Score
Top 8% Market Ranking
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Market Position

How your build compares to others
Budget
0-30
Mid-Range
30-60
High-End
60-85
Enthusiast
85-100
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Strong Performance

Excellent for 1440p gaming. Most games will run at high/ultra settings smoothly.

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Performance Tiers Explained

90-100

Ultimate

4K Ultra gaming, VR ready, ray tracing enabled, professional workloads

4K 60+ FPS VR Ready
70-89

High-End

1440p Ultra or 4K High settings, excellent for modern AAA titles

1440p Ultra 4K High
50-69

Mid-Range

1080p Ultra or 1440p Medium, great value for most gamers

1080p Ultra 1440p Med
30-49

Entry Level

1080p Medium settings, suitable for eSports and older titles

1080p Med eSports
0-29

Legacy

Basic gaming, older titles, consider upgrading for modern games

720p-1080p Low Older Games

Upgrade Path and Platform

The Intel Core i7-13700E is built on the Raptor Lake architecture and uses the Intel Socket 1700 platform. This socket supports both DDR4 and DDR5 memory through a dual-channel memory bus, giving builders flexibility depending on what memory they already own or what their performance priorities are. The platform also supports ECC memory, which is notable for a desktop-class chip and points toward workstation-adjacent use cases where data integrity matters more than raw speed.

PCIe connectivity on the CPU side is Gen 5 with 16 lanes available from the processor itself. That means a single modern graphics card or NVMe drive can run at full Gen 5 bandwidth, though the RTX 3080 in this pairing uses PCIe 4.0 x16 and will operate comfortably within those lanes. The GPU's bus interface is PCIe 4.0 x16, so there is no bottleneck from the slot interface; Gen 5 lanes simply provide headroom for future upgrades.

The CPU has a TDP of 65 watts, which is remarkably low for a 16-core part. This has direct implications for PSU headroom and cooling requirements. The GPU, however, draws significantly more power with a 320 W TDP, and NVIDIA recommends a 700 W power supply for a system built around the RTX 3080. The combination of a 65 W CPU and a 320 W GPU means the overall system power draw is dominated by the graphics card. A sensible next upgrade would be a higher-core-count Raptor Lake part on the same socket, since the platform supports the full 13th-gen lineup, but the 13700E already provides 16 cores and 24 threads, so most users would see larger gains from upgrading the GPU rather than the CPU.

The integrated UHD Graphics 770 provides a fallback display output and can handle basic desktop tasks, but it is not a gaming or compute solution. The CPU is multiplier-unlocked, so overclocking is possible, though the 65 W base TDP suggests the chip is designed for efficiency rather than extreme overclocking headroom. Production status is listed as Active, and the release date is January 3, 2023. The socket is Intel Socket 1700, which is the same platform used across 12th and 13th generation Intel desktop parts, so there is a broad ecosystem of motherboards available spanning both DDR4 and DDR5 memory support.

GPU Analysis

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is built on the Ampere architecture using the GA102 chip, fabricated on Samsung's 8 nm process. The die is substantial at 628 mm² and contains 28,300 million transistors, giving a transistor density of 45.1 million per square millimeter. The GPU has 8704 shading units, 272 texture mapping units, and 96 raster output units, which are the core building blocks for traditional rasterization performance.

Memory configuration consists of 10 GB of GDDR6X on a 320-bit bus, delivering a memory bandwidth of 760.3 GB/s. The memory clock runs at 1188 MHz with 19 Gbps effective speed. This bandwidth is critical for high-resolution textures and compute workloads that move large datasets. While 10 GB of VRAM is adequate for 1440p gaming and most content creation tasks, it can become a limiting factor at 4K with maximum texture quality in some modern titles.

Clock speeds are listed at 1440 MHz base and 1710 MHz boost. The GPU features 68 RT cores and 272 tensor cores, providing dedicated hardware for ray tracing and AI-accelerated workloads. The FP32 compute rating is 29.77 TFLOPS, with FP16 also rated at 29.77 TFLOPS at a 1:1 ratio. Pixel rate is 164.2 GPixel/s and texture rate is 465.1 GTexel/s. These figures place the RTX 3080 as a high-end GPU for its generation, though its percentile ranking of 68 among all GPUs indicates that newer parts have surpassed it in raw performance.

Benchmark results show the GPU scoring 4407 in 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, 152423 in Geekbench OpenCL, 33620 in Geekbench Vulkan, and 25086 in Passmark G3D. The Passmark DirectX scores show 170 in DX10, 207 in DX11, 100 in DX12, and 258 in DX9. These numbers indicate strong DirectX 12 performance relative to older APIs, which aligns with the architecture's focus on modern rendering pipelines. The GPU compute score of 14397 in Passmark underscores its capability for general-purpose compute tasks beyond gaming.

The RTX 3080 supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4, covering all modern graphics APIs. Display outputs include one HDMI 2.1 and three DisplayPort 1.4a connections, supporting multi-monitor setups. The card is dual-slot with a 285 mm length, 112 mm height, and 40 mm width, and uses a single 12-pin power connector. Production status is End-of-life, with a release date of August 31, 2020, and a launch MSRP of 699 USD.

Benchmark Performance

The Intel Core i7-13700E delivers a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 27941 and a single-core score of 3944. In Cinebench R20, it scores 11735 multi-core and 1656 single-core. Older Cinebench R15 results show 2816 multi-core and 397 single-core. Geekbench scores are 12728 multi-core and 2437 single-core. The average benchmark score across all tests is 7957, placing the CPU at the 64th percentile among all CPUs.

The GPU's average benchmark score is 23172, placing it at the 68th percentile among all GPUs. The combined percentile for this CPU-GPU pairing is 66. The nearest rivals for the CPU are the AMD EPYC 7551P with an average score of 7952 (0.1% difference), the Intel Core i9-10980XE at 7910 (0.6% difference), the Intel Xeon Gold 6326 at 8071 (-1.4% difference), and the Intel Xeon Platinum 8180M at 8110 (-1.9% difference). This means the i7-13700E sits right in the middle of a pack of enterprise and high-end desktop processors, trading blows with server-class silicon from both AMD and Intel.

The GPU's nearest rivals include the NVIDIA P106-100 at 23249 (-0.3%), the AMD Radeon Pro Vega 16 at 23250 (-0.3%), the AMD Radeon RX 6600M at 23273 (-0.4%), and the AMD Radeon R9 M290X at 23276 (-0.4%). These deltas are all within half a percent, indicating that the RTX 3080's average benchmark score is tightly clustered with a diverse set of GPUs across different generations and market segments. The combined picture is a system that sits above the median in both CPU and GPU performance, with the CPU being the slightly weaker component relative to its peers.

Who Should Build It

The Intel Core i7-13700E with the RTX 3080 targets users who need strong multi-threaded CPU performance alongside high-end GPU acceleration. The 16-core, 24-thread CPU with a 27941 Cinebench R23 multi-core score makes this suitable for content creators who render video or 3D scenes, as well as software developers compiling large codebases. The 65 W CPU TDP keeps power draw manageable for workstation builds that may run sustained workloads.

Gamers at 1440p will find the RTX 3080's 760.3 GB/s memory bandwidth and 29.77 TFLOPS FP32 performance well suited to high-refresh gaming. The GPU's 68th percentile ranking means it will handle most titles at high settings, though 4K gaming may require reduced settings in the most demanding games due to the 10 GB VRAM capacity. Students and small business workstations benefit from the platform's ECC memory support and the integrated UHD Graphics 770 as a backup display solution.

The CPU's 64th percentile ranking and its proximity to server-class Xeon and EPYC parts suggest it can handle professional workloads like simulation, data analysis, and virtualization. The combination of 16 cores, 24 threads, and 30 MB of shared L3 cache provides ample parallel processing capability for multi-threaded applications. The 700 W suggested PSU means this build fits into standard desktop cases with appropriate power supplies, and the dual-slot GPU with 285 mm length fits most mid-tower cases.

Balance and Bottleneck

The CPU and GPU are reasonably well balanced, but each has distinct workload preferences. The CPU's single-core score of 3944 in Cinebench R23 and Geekbench single-core score of 2437 indicate strong per-thread performance, which benefits gaming and lightly-threaded applications. The multi-core score of 27941 in Cinebench R23 shows that the CPU scales well with thread count, making it effective for rendering and compilation workloads.

The GPU's percentile ranking of 68 is slightly higher than the CPU's 64, suggesting the GPU is marginally more capable relative to its peers. In gaming scenarios, the CPU has sufficient single-core headroom to feed the GPU at 1440p, but at lower resolutions or with less demanding titles, the CPU could become the limiting factor. The 65 W TDP of the CPU means it will not thermally throttle under sustained loads in a well-ventilated case, whereas the 320 W GPU TDP requires adequate airflow and a quality power supply.

For compute-heavy tasks like GPU rendering or machine learning inference, the RTX 3080's 272 tensor cores and 29.77 TFLOPS FP32 performance will dominate the workload, making the CPU less relevant. Conversely, for tasks like code compilation or physics simulation that are CPU-bound, the 16-core CPU will be the primary driver. The 10 GB VRAM could be a bottleneck in scenarios where large datasets exceed that capacity, forcing the GPU to spill into system memory over the PCIe bus.

The FPS scaling between CPU and GPU is not directly measured for this pairing, but the benchmark scores indicate that at 1080p the CPU's 64th percentile ranking might hold back the GPU's 68th percentile in some titles. At 1440p and above, the GPU becomes the primary bottleneck, which is typical for high-resolution gaming. For productivity workloads, the CPU's multi-core performance is strong enough that the GPU will not bottleneck most tasks, except in GPU-accelerated rendering where the GPU is intrinsically the limiting factor.

Gaming Performance

No measured FPS rows exist for this exact CPU-GPU combination. The FACT PACK contains no measuredFps data, so all frame rate figures discussed here are estimated from the benchmark scores and should be treated as approximations rather than measured results.

Based on the GPU's 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 score of 4407 and Passmark G3D score of 25086, the RTX 3080 is capable of high-refresh gaming at 1080p and 1440p in most titles. The 68th percentile ranking places it above the median GPU, meaning it will outperform a majority of installed graphics cards. The 10 GB GDDR6X memory with 760.3 GB/s bandwidth is well matched to 1440p textures and should handle most games at that resolution without running out of VRAM.

At 4K resolution, the 10 GB VRAM capacity may become a constraint in the most demanding titles with ultra texture settings. The GPU's 29.77 TFLOPS FP32 performance is sufficient for 4K at reduced settings in many games, but users expecting maximum quality at 4K should consider how close the GPU sits to its performance limits. The CPU's single-core score of 3944 in Cinebench R23 suggests it will not bottleneck the GPU in most gaming scenarios, particularly at higher resolutions where the GPU is the limiting factor.

For competitive esports titles at 1080p with low settings, the combination of the CPU's strong single-core performance and the GPU's high fill rate should deliver very high frame rates, likely exceeding 144 FPS in most cases. For single-player AAA titles at 1440p with ultra settings, frame rates will vary by title but should generally remain playable, with the GPU being the primary constraint. Ray tracing workloads will benefit from the 68 dedicated RT cores, though performance will be lower than rasterized rendering.

CPU Analysis

The Intel Core i7-13700E is a 16-core, 24-thread processor based on the Raptor Lake architecture, specifically the Raptor Lake-S design on a 10 nm process node. The die size is 257 mm², produced by Intel. Base clock is 1900 MHz with a boost clock of 5100 MHz, providing a significant frequency range for both efficiency and performance. The 65 W TDP is notably low for a 16-core part, making it suitable for systems where power draw and heat output are concerns.

Cache hierarchy consists of 80 KB of L1 cache per core, 2 MB of L2 cache per core, and 30 MB of shared L3 cache. This large L3 cache benefits workloads that repeatedly access a shared dataset across multiple cores. The CPU supports DDR4 and DDR5 memory in dual-channel configuration, with ECC memory support adding reliability for workstation tasks. PCIe Gen 5 with 16 CPU lanes provides high-bandwidth connectivity for the GPU and NVMe storage.

Benchmark results show a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 27941, which places the CPU at the 64th percentile overall. The single-core score of 3944 is strong, indicating good per-thread performance for gaming and lightly-threaded applications. Geekbench scores of 12728 multi-core and 2437 single-core reinforce this picture. The average benchmark score of 7957 places it in close competition with server-class processors like the AMD EPYC 7551P (7952, 0.1% faster) and Intel Xeon Platinum 8180M (8110, 1.9% faster), while slightly ahead of the Intel Core i9-10980XE (7910, 0.6% slower).

For real workloads, the 16 cores and 24 threads provide strong multi-threaded performance for video encoding, 3D rendering, and software compilation. The high boost clock of 5.1 GHz ensures responsive performance for single-threaded tasks like web browsing and office applications. The integrated UHD Graphics 770 provides basic display output and hardware acceleration for video playback, though it is not suitable for gaming or compute workloads. The CPU is multiplier-unlocked, allowing overclocking for users who want to push performance beyond stock settings, though the 65 W TDP suggests efficiency was a primary design goal.

FAQ

Q: What socket does the Intel Core i7-13700E use?

A: The CPU uses Intel Socket 1700 and is compatible with motherboards designed for that socket, supporting both DDR4 and DDR5 memory.

Q: How much memory bandwidth does the RTX 3080 have?

A: The GPU has a memory bandwidth of 760.3 GB/s, achieved with 10 GB of GDDR6X memory on a 320-bit bus.

Q: Does the i7-13700E support ECC memory?

A: Yes, the CPU supports ECC memory, which is a notable feature for workstation and data integrity applications.

Q: What is the combined performance percentile of this CPU-GPU pairing?

A: The combined percentile is 66, with the CPU at the 64th percentile and the GPU at the 68th percentile among all their respective components.

Q: What power supply is recommended for the RTX 3080?

A: The suggested PSU for the RTX 3080 is 700 W, based on the GPU's 320 W TDP.

Q: Does the RTX 3080 support ray tracing?

A: Yes, the GPU has 68 dedicated RT cores and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, which includes ray tracing features.

Q: What is the boost clock of the i7-13700E?

A: The CPU has a boost clock of 5.1 GHz, with a base clock of 1.9 GHz and a 65 W TDP.

Usage Scenarios

High-refresh gaming: The RTX 3080's 68th percentile ranking and 29.77 TFLOPS FP32 performance, combined with the CPU's strong single-core score of 3944 in Cinebench R23, make this system well suited for 1440p high-refresh gaming. Frame rates will be high in esports titles at 1080p, while AAA games at 1440p will run smoothly at high settings.

Streaming: The 16-core, 24-thread CPU can handle game encoding and streaming software simultaneously without significant performance degradation. The 65 W TDP keeps power draw manageable during extended streaming sessions, and the GPU's NVENC capabilities, implied by the tensor cores, offload encoding work from the CPU.

Video editing: The Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 27941 provides strong performance for video timeline processing and export. The GPU's 10 GB VRAM and 760.3 GB/s bandwidth accelerate effects and color grading. The 68 RT cores also aid in GPU-accelerated rendering in supported software.

3D rendering: The combination of 16 CPU cores and a GPU with 8704 shading units and 29.77 TFLOPS FP32 performance is well matched for 3D rendering workloads. The CPU handles viewport simulation and physics, while the GPU accelerates final frame rendering and ray tracing tasks.

Software development: The 16 cores, 24 threads, and 30 MB of L3 cache speed up code compilation and test execution. The ECC memory support adds stability for long-running builds and test suites. The 64th percentile CPU ranking places it above most consumer processors for developer workloads.

Student and office work: The integrated UHD Graphics 770 provides display output without a discrete GPU, and the CPU's 65 W TDP keeps electricity costs low for daily use. The 5.1 GHz boost clock ensures snappy responsiveness in productivity applications, while the platform's DDR4 support allows cost-effective memory configurations.