Intel Core i7-11700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700

Core i7-11700K vs Ryzen 7 5700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700 beats the Core i7-11700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11700K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700K. Despite this, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700 outputs less heat than Core i7-11700K 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 and 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.