Intel Core i7-9700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

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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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Price

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$ 199.43

$ 186.71 significantly less expensive

$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5644 points

10011 points

77% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8019 points

11884 points

48% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4848 points

9348 points

92% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4655 points

9142 points

96% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5869 points

8010 points

36% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.80 points

263.24 points

96% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7273 points

15051 points

106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1702 points

2723 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

4.20 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

26% slightly lower TDP

120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

96 MiB

700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

282nd of 1,089

88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-9700K vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D beats the Core i7-9700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700K. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-9700K. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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 i7-9700K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.