Intel Core i7-11700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 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
$ 246.84
$ 93.55 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7093 points
10008 points
41% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9522 points
12170 points
27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6319 points
9291 points
47% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6131 points
9088 points
48% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7705 points
9007 points
16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.14 points
281.95 points
72% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10287 points
19509 points
89% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8506 points
15168 points
78% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points
2857 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8582 points
15466 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2114 points
2977 points
40% 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
4.50 GHz
80% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
5.4 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

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

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
8 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

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
89th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2022 September

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
-

Core i7-11700 vs Ryzen 7 7700X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7700X 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-11700 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 7700X CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700. The Ryzen 7 7700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-11700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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