Intel Core i7-7820X vs AMD Ryzen 7 7730U

Compare Intel Core X-series 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5865 points

8% slightly better overall score

5419 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7275 points

8% slightly better gaming score

6732 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5393 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

5010 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5258 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

4902 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

165.28 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

130.22 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7802 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6209 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1416 points

1630 points

15% slightly 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

3.6 GHz

79% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

4.5 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

15 W

833% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

11 MiB

16 MiB

45% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

262nd of 1,089

302nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-7820X vs Ryzen 7 7730U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7730U is faster than the Core i7-7820X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7820X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7820X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 7730U.

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 i7-7820X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.