Intel Core i7-9700F vs AMD EPYC 74F3

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

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AMD EPYC 74F3

Price

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$ 246.50

$ 2152.45 significantly less expensive

$ 2398.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5091 points

5669 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7520 points

5% slightly better gaming score

7130 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4300 points

5211 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4118 points

5104 points

23% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

109.06 points

136.28 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6401 points

12689 points

98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1584 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1438 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

125% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

3.19 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

269% significantly lower TDP

240 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

576 KiB

12% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

4.5 MiB

125% 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

339th of 1,089

278th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-9700F vs EPYC 74F3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the EPYC 74F3 beats the Core i7-9700F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-9700F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has slightly more cores with 9 cores whereas the Core i7-9700F has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-9700F. With our hardware info, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700F. A Core i7-9700F CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 74F3 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 EPYC 74F3 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-9700F. The EPYC 74F3 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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