Intel Core i7-11700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Price

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$ 359.00

$ 301.56

$ 57.44 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7984 points

11120 points

39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9165 points

13778 points

50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7574 points

10239 points

35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7434 points

9995 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8151 points

9722 points

19% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

208.15 points

302.05 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9888 points

16965 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2246 points

3349 points

49% significantly 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

3.6 GHz

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

5.5 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

Identical

640 KiB

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

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

149th of 1,089

67th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5

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 9700X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 9700X performs better 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 9700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700K. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9700X 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. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 9700X has more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700K. The Ryzen 7 9700X 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.