Intel Core i7-11700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 359.00
$ 96.05 slightly less expensive
$ 455.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7984 points
10982 points
37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9165 points
13108 points
43% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7574 points
10252 points
35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7434 points
10031 points
34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8151 points
10082 points
23% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

208.15 points
325.43 points
56% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9888 points
18346 points
85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2246 points
3336 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
4.7 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
5.2 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
120 W
4% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
96 MiB
499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

149th of 1,089
70th 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 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-11700K vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700K. Also, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-11700K. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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