Intel Core i7-10700KF vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Price

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$ 245.99

$ 153.62 significantly less expensive

$ 399.61

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7179 points

7335 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8706 points

8938 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6665 points

6797 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6515 points

6646 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7286 points

7297 points

0.15% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

172.73 points

209.61 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8224 points

10897 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1675 points

2052 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8135 points

11047 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1723 points

2117 points

22% slightly 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

11% slightly higher clock speed

3.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

105 W

19% slightly lower TDP

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

4 MiB

100% 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

179th of 1,089

172nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2933

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-10700KF vs Ryzen 7 5800X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is faster than the Core i7-10700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-10700KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10700KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Also, the Core i7-10700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D outputs less heat than Core i7-10700KF 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 5800X3D has more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700KF. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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 i7-10700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.