Intel Core i7-9700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 338.78
$ 60.83 slightly less expensive
$ 399.61

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5190 points
7335 points
41% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7573 points
8938 points
18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4403 points
6797 points
54% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4217 points
6646 points
57% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5171 points
7297 points
41% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.42 points
209.61 points
96% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6174 points
10897 points
76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1526 points
2052 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6222 points
11047 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1571 points
2117 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
3.40 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.5 GHz

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

512 KiB
Identical
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
96 MiB
700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

326th of 1,089
172nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-9700 vs Ryzen 7 5800X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D beats the Core i7-9700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700. Despite this, the Core i7-9700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-9700 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Core i7-9700 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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