Intel Core i7-870 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Core i7-870 vs Ryzen 7 9700X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 9700X is faster than the Core i7-870. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-870 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 9700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-870 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-870. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-870. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9700X outputs less heat than Core i7-870 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 i7-870 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.