Intel Core i7-3770K vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 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
$ 41.25 slightly less expensive
$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2702 points
10011 points
270% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4366 points
11884 points
172% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2208 points
9348 points
323% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2118 points
9142 points
331% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2148 points
8010 points
272% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.21 points
263.24 points
457% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2489 points
15051 points
504% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

709 points
2723 points
284% 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
4.20 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
5 GHz
28% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W
55% significantly lower TDP
120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

588th of 1,089
88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May
2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR5

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-3770K vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D beats the Core i7-3770K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-3770K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770K. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3770K. Also, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-3770K CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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

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