Intel Core i7-11700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT

Price

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$ 359.00

$ 199.20

$ 159.80 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7984 points

8204 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9165 points

9603 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7574 points

7740 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7434 points

7593 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8151 points

6% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

7628 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

208.15 points

214.43 points

3% slightly higher Blender 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

3.6 GHz

3.80 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

105 W

19% slightly lower TDP

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

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

149th of 1,089

140th 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 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-11700K vs Ryzen 7 5800XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800XT is faster than the Core i7-11700K. 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800XT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700K. Despite this, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5800XT outputs less heat than Core i7-11700K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 7 5800XT 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 i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.