Intel Core i7-11700KF vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Core i7-11700KF vs EPYC 74F3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the EPYC 74F3 is faster than the Core i7-11700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-11700KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has slightly more cores with 9 cores whereas the Core i7-11700KF has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-11700KF has a slightly higher clock speed than the EPYC 74F3. A Core i7-11700KF CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 74F3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700KF. The EPYC 74F3 also has significantly more 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 i7-11700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.