Intel Core i7-10700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 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

6751 points
7028 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8301 points
8379 points
0.94% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6232 points
6623 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6087 points
6517 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

177.76 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
164.73 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8131 points
9396 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1719 points
2142 points
24% 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

3.8 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz
Identical
5.1 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

207th of 1,089
191st of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 7 PRO

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2023 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-10700K vs Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U performs better than the Core i7-10700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700K. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i7-10700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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