Intel Core i7-11700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Price

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$ 340.39

$ 329.99

$ 10.40 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7093 points

1% slightly better overall score

6994 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9522 points

16% slightly better gaming score

8202 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6319 points

6575 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6131 points

6440 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7705 points

14% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6750 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.14 points

187.18 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8582 points

10106 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2114 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1922 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.5 GHz

3.58 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

10% slightly lower TDP

105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

96 MiB

499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

184th of 1,089

194th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-11700 vs Ryzen 7 5700X3D specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-11700 performs better than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X3D 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. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 5700X3D 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 i7-11700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.