Intel Core i7-8700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 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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$ 150.25
$ 96.60 significantly less expensive
$ 246.84

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4771 points
10008 points
109% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6744 points
12170 points
80% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4149 points
9291 points
123% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4005 points
9088 points
126% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4845 points
9007 points
85% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

109.37 points
281.95 points
157% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5865 points
15168 points
158% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1478 points
2857 points
93% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5964 points
15466 points
159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points
2977 points
93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
4.50 GHz
40% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5.4 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
8 MiB
433% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
32 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

368th of 1,089
89th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-8700 vs Ryzen 7 7700X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7700X is faster than the Core i7-8700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 7700X has slightly more cores than the Core i7-8700. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8700. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8700 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 7700X CPU because of its 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 7 7700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 7 7700X 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 i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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