Intel Core i7-7800X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Price

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$ 355.63

$ 188.99

$ 166.64 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4493 points

7573 points

68% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5755 points

10596 points

84% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4089 points

6600 points

61% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3970 points

6379 points

60% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6534 points

1% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6449 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.00 points

197.05 points

79% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6131 points

12599 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1344 points

2751 points

104% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

3.70 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

5 GHz

25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

65 W

115% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

32 MiB

28% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

391st of 1,089

164th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

2023 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-7800X vs Ryzen 5 7500F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7500F is faster than the Core i7-7800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7800X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7500F has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-7800X. Also, the Ryzen 5 7500F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7500F outputs less heat than Core i7-7800X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-7800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.