Intel Core i7-10700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

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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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Price

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$ 380.99

$ 74.06 slightly less expensive

$ 455.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6751 points

10982 points

62% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8301 points

13108 points

57% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6232 points

10252 points

64% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6087 points

10031 points

64% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7292 points

10082 points

38% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

177.76 points

325.43 points

83% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8131 points

18346 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1719 points

3336 points

94% 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

3.8 GHz

4.7 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz

5.2 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

120 W

4% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

96 MiB

499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

207th of 1,089

70th 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 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-10700K vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D beats the Core i7-10700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700K 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 9800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10700K. Also, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D outputs less heat than Core i7-10700K thanks to a slightly 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 9800X3D has more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700K. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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 i7-10700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.