Intel Core i7-10700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 298.15
$ 3.41 slightly less expensive
$ 301.56

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6267 points
11120 points
77% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7929 points
13778 points
73% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5718 points
10239 points
79% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5568 points
9995 points
79% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6944 points
9722 points
40% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

143.42 points
302.05 points
110% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7115 points
16965 points
138% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points
3349 points
106% significantly 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
3.8 GHz
31% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
5.5 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
640 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

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
32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

238th of 1,089
67th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-10700 vs Ryzen 7 9700X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9700X 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10700. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 9700X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10700. The Ryzen 7 9700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-10700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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