Intel Core i7-11700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840U

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7984 points

2% slightly better overall score

7756 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9165 points

10179 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7574 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

6990 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7434 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

6806 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8151 points

42% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

5705 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

208.15 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

169.90 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9888 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

9309 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2246 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2179 points

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

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

5.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

28 W

346% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

149th of 1,089

156th 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

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5 (FP7r2)

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 8840U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700K beats the Ryzen 7 8840U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8840U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 8840U. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 8840U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700K. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.