Intel Core i7-7700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 8400F

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 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

$ 185.00
$ 165.69
$ 19.31 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3620 points
7722 points
113% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5762 points
10390 points
80% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2983 points
6857 points
129% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2864 points
6632 points
131% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3473 points
6145 points
76% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.21 points
179.45 points
110% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.2 GHz
Identical
4.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
4.7 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
6 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
16 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

471st of 1,089
156th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2024 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-7700K vs Ryzen 5 8400F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 8400F beats the Core i7-7700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7700K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 8400F has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7700K. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8400F has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-7700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700K. According to our data, the Core i7-7700K and Ryzen 5 8400F have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8400F outputs less heat than Core i7-7700K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8400F has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-7700K. The Ryzen 5 8400F 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 i7-7700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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