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Rate My PC: Intel Core i7-13790F + AMD Radeon RX 6400

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89 Score

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89 / 100

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Top 11% of systems. Excellent for 1440p Ultra or 4K High gaming.

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CPU

96%

GPU

83%

PROCESSOR

Intel Core i7-13790F

63,080 Benchmark Score

Top 4% Market Ranking

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AMD Radeon RX 6400

6,001 Benchmark Score

Top 17% Market Ranking

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60-85

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85-100

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90-100

Ultimate

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

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70-89

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50-69

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

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30-49

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1080p Medium settings, suitable for eSports and older titles

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0-29

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Basic gaming, older titles, consider upgrading for modern games

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The Intel Core i7-13790F paired with the AMD Radeon RX 6400 is one of the most lopsided combinations in the database: a 93rd-percentile CPU bolted to a 35th-percentile GPU, producing a combined percentile of 64. The data tells a clear story — this is a CPU-forward desktop build whose graphics subsystem will limit anything visually demanding, while the processor alone carries productivity, development, and multi-threaded workloads near the top of the chart. Note that no measured FPS rows exist for this exact pairing in the database, so all frame-rate discussion below is estimated from the benchmark scores rather than recorded gameplay.

GPU Analysis

The Radeon RX 6400 is a small chip in every measurable sense. Built on TSMC's 6 nm process, the Navi 24 die measures just 107 mm² and packs 5,400 million transistors at a density of 50.5M per mm². It runs RDNA 2.0 with 768 shading units, 48 texture mapping units, and 32 render output units, producing a pixel rate of 74.27 GPixel/s and a texture rate of 111.4 GTexel/s. Raw compute sits at 3.565 TFLOPS FP32, or 7.130 TFLOPS FP16 at a 2:1 ratio. These are entry-level figures, and the benchmarks confirm it: a PassMark G3D score of 7,673 places the card in the 35th percentile of all GPUs.

Memory is the defining constraint. The RX 6400 carries 4 GB of GDDR6 on a 64-bit bus, delivering 128.0 GB/s of bandwidth. That narrow bus and small capacity mean modern game assets, high-resolution textures, and multi-layer rendering workloads will saturate quickly. Clocks are reasonable for the class — a 1923 MHz base, 2321 MHz boost, and 2039 MHz game clock, with memory at 16 Gbps effective — but no amount of clock speed compensates for a 64-bit bus in bandwidth-hungry scenes.

Ray tracing exists in hardware, with 12 RT cores, but the DX12 Ultimate feature set is academic at these throughput levels: a PassMark DirectX 12 score of 30 against a DirectX 9 score of 93 shows how poorly the architecture scales into modern pipelines relative to legacy ones. Compute benchmarks reinforce the ceiling — Geekbench OpenCL lands at 32,011 and Vulkan at 16,372, while the PassMark GPU compute score is 2,812 and 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 manages just 176. For rendering, these numbers mean GPU-accelerated viewport work and path tracing are effectively off the table; the card can drive displays and handle light rasterization, nothing more. The single-slot, 53 W design with no power connectors and a suggested 250 W PSU is its most attractive practical trait.

Usage Scenarios

High-refresh gaming: Not viable at settings this card cannot reach. With a G3D score of 7,673 and a DX12 sub-score of 30, the RX 6400 cannot deliver high-refresh gameplay in modern titles; competitive esports at reduced settings and modest resolutions is the realistic ceiling, and even then frame-rate estimates derived from these scores should be treated as approximations, not measurements.

Streaming: The CPU side is excellent — a Cinebench R23 multi-core score of 35,404 and PassMark multithread of 44,737 leave ample headroom for encoding while gaming. The problem is that the GPU cannot produce a base frame rate worth streaming from anything but undemanding games. CPU-encoding streams of desktop work or light titles would work; game streaming at quality settings would not.

Video editing: Split verdict. Timeline scrubbing, proxy workflows, and export through the CPU benefit from 16 cores, 24 threads, and the 33 MB of shared L3 cache. But GPU-accelerated effects rely on OpenCL and Vulkan performance measured at 32,011 and 16,372 respectively, and 4 GB of VRAM will exhaust rapidly on multi-layer 4K timelines. CPU-only editing workflows succeed; GPU-assisted ones stall.

3D rendering: CPU rendering is genuinely strong — R23 multi-core at 35,404 sits near the top of mainstream desktop results, and the 93rd percentile ranking backs that up. GPU rendering is a non-starter: 3.565 TFLOPS FP32, 128.0 GB/s of bandwidth, and a Steel Nomad score of 176 place the RX 6400 far below any serious rendering threshold.

Software development: This is where the pairing makes sense. Compilation, containerization, and parallel builds scale with the PassMark multithread score of 44,737 and integer math of 151,416, while single-thread responsiveness is anchored by a PassMark single-thread score of 4,212. The GPU is irrelevant to most development work beyond driving monitors via its HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4a outputs.

Student and office work: More than sufficient. Documents, browsing, video calls, and data compression tasks (PassMark data compression at 567,473) will feel instant on this CPU, and the 53 W GPU adds silent, low-draw display output. There is no scenario in routine office work where this build breaks a sweat.

Balance and Bottleneck

The bottleneck analysis is unambiguous: the GPU limits this build in every graphics-bound workload. The CPU sits in the 93rd percentile of all processors with an average benchmark score of 63,080 — statistically indistinguishable from rivals like the Intel Core Ultra 7 265HX (63,173, a 0.1% delta) and the AMD Ryzen AI 7 450G (63,331, a 0.4% delta). The GPU sits in the 35th percentile with an average score of 6,001, dead even with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770M at a 0% delta. That is a cross-generational mismatch: a current-tier desktop flagship-class processor feeding a card whose aggregate rivals are legacy mobile and workstation parts.

Because no measured FPS data exists for this pairing, the scaling evidence comes from the sub-scores. The PassMark DirectX 9 score of 93 versus DirectX 12's 30 shows the card collapsing under modern render pipelines; any game leveraging DX12 features will hit the GPU wall long before the i7-13790F's 24 threads are engaged. Conversely, in CPU-bound scenarios — physics simulation at a PassMark physics score of 3,017, prime number computation, string sorting at 58,607 — the processor is never the limiter. The combined percentile of 64 exists only because the CPU drags the average up; the practical experience in games will track the GPU's 35th percentile, not the blended figure.

Who Should Build It

The honest answer: almost nobody should build this exact pairing, because each component serves a different user. The i7-13790F — 16 cores, 24 threads, a 5.20 GHz boost, DDR4/DDR5 support, and PCIe Gen 5 with 20 CPU lanes — suits developers, video editors working CPU-side, simulation users, and small business workstations needing sustained multi-threaded throughput. The RX 6400 — single-slot, 53 W, no power connectors — suits compact or power-constrained systems where any discrete display output is better than none.

Where the pairing accidentally works: a developer machine or office workstation that occasionally runs undemanding games at reduced settings. The CPU's R23 multi-core of 35,404 handles heavy compile and encode loads, while the card's G3D of 7,673 delivers casual and esports-class rasterization. Industries that fit include software houses, data-light analytics, education, and general administration. Gamers targeting high refresh rates, content creators depending on GPU acceleration, and 3D artists should not build this — the Steel Nomad score of 176 and GPU compute of 2,812 rule them out categorically.

CPU Analysis

The i7-13790F is a Raptor Lake-S desktop processor on Intel's 10 nm node, with a 257 mm² die and a Socket 1700 interface. It runs a hybrid configuration totaling 16 cores and 24 threads, with a 2.10 GHz base clock and a 5.20 GHz boost. The TDP is 65 W — modest for this performance class — and the multiplier is locked. Cache is generous: 80 KB of L1 and 2 MB of L2 per core, plus 33 MB of shared L3, which explains much of the strong showing in latency-sensitive tasks.

Memory support spans both DDR4 and DDR5 on a dual-channel bus, and the platform provides PCIe Gen 5 with 20 CPU lanes. There is no integrated graphics on this F-suffix part, which makes the RX 6400's presence functionally mandatory for display output. The launch MSRP was $441.

The benchmark picture is elite for productivity. Cinebench R23 multi-core at 35,404 and single-core at 4,998 show a chip that is simultaneously near the top in throughput and in per-thread snappiness — R15 mirrors this at 3,568 multi and 503 single, and R20 at 14,869 and 2,099. PassMark multithread of 44,737 against single-thread of 4,212 confirms the same dual strength. The 93rd percentile ranking, with an average score of 63,080 and rivals clustered within half a percent — the Ryzen AI Embedded P185 at 62,839 (0.4% delta) and the Core Ultra 7 255HX at 62,738 (0.5% delta) — places this CPU firmly in the upper tier of the database. For real workloads: compilation, encoding, compression at 567,473, and encryption at 31,703 all scale directly with those multi-core figures.

FAQ

Q: Is this build good for gaming?

A: No. The GPU's 35th percentile ranking, G3D score of 7,673, and DX12 sub-score of 30 make it the limiter in every modern title, regardless of the CPU's strength.

Q: Why is there no measured FPS data?

A: The database contains no measured FPS rows for this exact CPU+GPU combination, so all frame-rate expectations in this analysis are estimates derived from benchmark scores.

Q: Does the CPU have integrated graphics?

A: No. The i7-13790F has no integrated graphics, so the RX 6400 is required for display output through its HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 1.4a connectors.

Q: How does the i7-13790F compare to its nearest rivals?

A: It is statistically tied with them: the Core Ultra 7 265HX averages 63,173 (-0.1%), the Ryzen AI 7 450G averages 63,331 (-0.4%), and the Ryzen AI Embedded P185 averages 62,839 (+0.4%).

Q: Is 4 GB of VRAM a problem?

A: Yes, for anything demanding. The 4 GB of GDDR6 on a 64-bit bus with 128.0 GB/s of bandwidth will saturate quickly with modern textures and render workloads.

Q: Can the RX 6400 do ray tracing?

A: It has 12 RT cores and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, but at 3.565 TFLOPS FP32 and a Steel Nomad score of 176, real-time ray-traced performance is not practical.

Q: What PSU does this build need?

A: The GPU needs no power connectors and carries a suggested PSU of 250 W; the CPU's TDP is 65 W, making total platform power undemanding.

Benchmark Performance

Exact figures for the CPU: Cinebench R15 multi 3,568 / single 503; R20 multi 14,869 / single 2,099; R23 multi 35,404 / single 4,998; PassMark multithread 44,737; single-thread 4,212; physics 3,017; integer math 151,416; floating point 110,512; extended instructions 34,828; data compression 567,473; encryption 31,703; string sorting 58,607; prime numbers 207. Average score: 63,080, at the 93rd percentile.

Exact figures for the GPU: PassMark G3D 7,673; DirectX 9 93, DirectX 10 54, DirectX 11 70, DirectX 12 30; G2D 722; GPU compute 2,812; Geekbench OpenCL 32,011; Vulkan 16,372; 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 176. Average score: 6,001, at the 35th percentile.

The combined picture is a 64th-percentile build that behaves like a 93rd-percentile productivity machine and a 35th-percentile gaming machine depending on the workload. That divergence — 58 percentile points between the two halves — is the single most important fact about this pairing. The card's nearest rivals by average score (GTX 770M at 0% delta, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server at 0.1%, FirePro W4100 at 0.2%, Quadro K4000M at 0.3%) reflect database clustering rather than real-world equivalence, but the message holds: the GPU is the weak half by a wide margin.

Build Overview

This is a desktop build pairing Intel's Raptor Lake-S i7-13790F — 16 cores, 24 threads, 5.20 GHz boost, 65 W TDP, Socket 1700 — with AMD's RX 6400, a single-slot, 53 W RDNA 2.0 card on the Navi 24 die. Production status is telling: the CPU is Active while the GPU is End-of-life, another marker of the generational mismatch. With a combined percentile of 64, the build classifies overall as upper-mid — but that tier is a mathematical artifact. Functionally, this is a high-tier workstation platform with an entry-level display adapter attached, best understood as a productivity build rather than a balanced gaming system.

Gaming Performance

No measured FPS rows exist for this exact combination, so the following expectations are estimates derived from the benchmark scores, not recorded results. The RX 6400's G3D score of 7,673 and 35th percentile position indicate playable frame rates only in esports and legacy titles at reduced settings — the DirectX 9 sub-score of 93 versus DirectX 12's 30 suggests older engines will run acceptably while modern pipelines will not. At higher resolutions, the 4 GB frame buffer and 128.0 GB/s of bandwidth become the hard ceiling before compute does.

The CPU contributes nothing to the gaming equation here except headroom: with a PassMark single-thread of 4,212 and physics score of 3,017, the i7-13790F could drive far higher frame rates than the GPU can render — a classic case of the processor waiting on the graphics card. Estimates from the Steel Nomad score of 176 place modern AAA titles firmly below playable thresholds at high settings. The verdict is simple: this build games at the level of its 35th-percentile GPU, full stop, and anyone purchasing primarily for gaming should treat the RX 6400 as the component to replace first.

Rate My PC: Intel Core i7-13790F + AMD Radeon RX 6400

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