Intel Core i7-11700F vs AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6877 points

8% slightly better overall score

6328 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8972 points

15% slightly better gaming score

7752 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6226 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

5895 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6069 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

5789 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7665 points

17% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6531 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.87 points

169.56 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8656 points

9595 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2120 points

2167 points

2% 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

2.5 GHz

3.30 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5.1 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

28 W

132% significantly lower TDP

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

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

200th of 1,089

234th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7

Ryzen Z1

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-11700F vs Ryzen Z1 Extreme specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme beats the Core i7-11700F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11700F 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 Z1 Extreme has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700F. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen Z1 Extreme has more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700F. 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 i7-11700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.