Intel Core i7-4770K vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 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

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$ 153.83
$ 232.31 significantly less expensive
$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2925 points
10011 points
242% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4768 points
11884 points
149% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2381 points
9348 points
292% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2286 points
9142 points
299% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2543 points
8010 points
214% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

66.02 points
263.24 points
298% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4080 points
15051 points
268% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1280 points
2723 points
112% 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
4.20 GHz
19% 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

84 W
42% much lower TDP
120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
8 MiB
700% 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
88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 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 i7-4770K vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4770K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4770K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4770K. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4770K. Also, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-4770K CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU because of its much 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 7800X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4770K. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-4770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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