Intel Core i7-10700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7730U

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6267 points
15% slightly better overall score
5419 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7929 points
17% slightly better gaming score
6732 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5718 points
14% slightly better multitasking score
5010 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5568 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score
4902 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

143.42 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
130.22 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

8532 points
11490 points
34% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7115 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6209 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points
1630 points
0.31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
Identical
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 1,089
302nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-10700 vs Ryzen 7 7730U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700 beats the Ryzen 7 7730U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7730U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 7730U. Also, the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7730U outputs less heat than Core i7-10700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 7730U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-10700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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