Intel Core i7-9700K vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Core i7-9700K vs EPYC 74F3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-9700K beats the EPYC 74F3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the EPYC 74F3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the EPYC 74F3 has slightly more cores than the Core i7-9700K. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has 9 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-9700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-9700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-9700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the EPYC 74F3. A Core i7-9700K 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700K. The EPYC 74F3 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. For instance, the Core i7-9700K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.