Intel Core i7-4770K vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 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

$ 153.83
$ 245.78 significantly less expensive
$ 399.61

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2925 points
7335 points
150% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4768 points
8938 points
87% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2381 points
6797 points
185% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2286 points
6646 points
190% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2543 points
7297 points
186% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

66.02 points
209.61 points
217% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3979 points
10897 points
173% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1227 points
2052 points
67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4080 points
11047 points
170% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1280 points
2117 points
65% 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

3.50 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.5 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W
25% slightly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
4 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
96 MiB
1100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

548th of 1,089
172nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-4770K vs Ryzen 7 5800X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is faster than the Core i7-4770K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4770K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-4770K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4770K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4770K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4770K CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU because of its 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 5800X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4770K. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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 i7-4770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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