Intel Core i7-9700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i7 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 338.78
$ 246.84
$ 91.94 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5190 points
10008 points
92% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7573 points
12170 points
60% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4403 points
9291 points
111% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4217 points
9088 points
115% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5171 points
9007 points
74% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.42 points
281.95 points
164% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6174 points
15168 points
145% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1526 points
2857 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6222 points
15466 points
148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1571 points
2977 points
89% significantly 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
4.50 GHz
50% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.4 GHz
14% 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

512 KiB
Identical
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
8 MiB
300% 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

326th of 1,089
89th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May
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 i7-9700 vs Ryzen 7 7700X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7700X 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 7 7700X has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-9700 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 7700X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-9700. The Ryzen 7 7700X 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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