Intel Core i7-11700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8400F

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 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

$ 340.39
$ 165.69
$ 174.70 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7093 points
7722 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9522 points
10390 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6319 points
6857 points
8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6131 points
6632 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7705 points
25% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6145 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.14 points
179.45 points
9% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz
4.2 GHz
68% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
6 MiB
49% 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

184th of 1,089
157th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2024 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
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 i7-11700 vs Ryzen 5 8400F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8400F is faster than the Core i7-11700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11700 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-11700 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 8400F. Indeed, the Core i7-11700 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 8400F. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8400F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8400F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8400F outputs less heat than Core i7-11700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 8400F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-11700. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i7-11700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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