Core i7-3930K vs Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3930K beats the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has slightly more cores than the Core i7-3930K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-3930K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3930K. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3930K. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X outputs less heat than Core i7-3930K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.
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 i7-3930K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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