Intel Core i7-11700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D

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

7984 points

5% slightly better overall score

7598 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9165 points

10348 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7574 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

6695 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7434 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

6473 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

208.15 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

199.09 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

4.00 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

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

96 MiB

499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

149th of 1,089

161st of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7

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

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-11700K vs Ryzen 5 7500X3D comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11700K is faster than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-11700K has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700K. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700K. The Ryzen 5 7500X3D 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 i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.