Thanks to its high clock speeds and Intel Alder Lake-based hybrid architecture, you can enjoy the maximum gaming performance of the Intel Core i7-13700F while secondary applications run seamlessly in the background. Intel's powerful hybrid architecture integrates two core families into a single CPU, keeping everything in your gaming universe running smoothly. Eight performance cores (P-cores) are designed for performance in single and light thread workloads, accelerating gaming and productive work. Eight efficient cores (E cores) are optimised for multithreaded performance and minimise performance hits from secondary tasks. The Intel Thread Director prioritises and manages CPU utilisation. It distributes tasks to the most appropriate core to perform the computation. Both core types can be overclocked separately.