Intel Core i7-10700K vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Price

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$ 380.99

$ 286.81 significantly less expensive

$ 667.80

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6751 points

16302 points

141% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8301 points

14590 points

75% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6232 points

16961 points

172% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6087 points

17329 points

184% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7292 points

17230 points

136% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

177.76 points

643.21 points

261% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8131 points

22134 points

172% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1719 points

3395 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

4.3 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz

5.7 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

36% slightly lower TDP

170 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

1280 KiB

150% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

16 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

128 MiB

700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

207th of 1,089

14th 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

2025 March

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 9 9950X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D is faster than the Core i7-10700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-10700K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10700K. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10700K. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10700K. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D 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.