Intel Core i7-11700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel 11th 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 340.39
$ 212.99
$ 127.40 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7093 points
7399 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9522 points
5% slightly better gaming score
8984 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6319 points
6877 points
8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6131 points
6735 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7705 points
11% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6914 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.14 points
207.23 points
27% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10287 points
13184 points
28% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8506 points
9632 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points
2079 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8582 points
9706 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2114 points
2147 points
1% 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

2.5 GHz
3.40 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
4.6 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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

184th of 1,089
170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4

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 7 5700X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11700 is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 5700X 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 i7-11700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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