Intel Core i7-10700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

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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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Price

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$ 298.15

$ 87.99 slightly less expensive

$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6267 points

10011 points

59% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7929 points

11884 points

49% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5718 points

9348 points

63% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5568 points

9142 points

64% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6944 points

8010 points

15% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

143.42 points

263.24 points

83% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

8532 points

18086 points

111% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7115 points

15051 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points

2723 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz

4.20 GHz

44% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

8 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

96 MiB

499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 1,089

88th 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

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-10700 vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D beats the Core i7-10700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10700. Also, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-10700 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU because of its 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 7800X3D has more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D also has significantly more 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.