Intel Core i7-8700T vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2945 points
16302 points
453% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4207 points
14590 points
246% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2558 points
16961 points
563% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2473 points
17329 points
600% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

92.37 points
643.21 points
596% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4733 points
22134 points
367% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1336 points
3395 points
154% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
32
166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
4.3 GHz
79% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
5.7 GHz
42% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
385% significantly lower TDP
170 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
1280 KiB
233% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
16 MiB
966% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
128 MiB
966% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

548th of 1,092
14th of 1,092

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
2025 March

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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