Intel Core i7-3770K vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 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

$ 344.89
$ 212.99
$ 131.90 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2702 points
7399 points
173% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4366 points
8984 points
105% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2208 points
6877 points
211% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2118 points
6735 points
217% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2148 points
6914 points
221% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.21 points
207.23 points
338% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2474 points
9632 points
289% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

708 points
2079 points
193% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2489 points
9706 points
289% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

709 points
2147 points
202% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.6 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
65 W
18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

588th of 1,089
170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-3770K vs Ryzen 7 5700X specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5700X performs better than the Core i7-3770K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5700X has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3770K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700X has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-3770K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3770K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X outputs less heat than Core i7-3770K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-3770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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