Intel Core i7-9800X vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Compare Intel Core X-series 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Price

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$ 768.88

$ 814.12 significantly less expensive

$ 1583.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6761 points

3% slightly better overall score

6502 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8246 points

5% slightly better gaming score

7833 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6264 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

6045 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6133 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

5906 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.68 points

184.03 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7552 points

7993 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1400 points

1652 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

Identical

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W

65 W

153% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

5 MiB

32 MiB

540% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

219th of 1,118

231st of 1,118

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-9800X vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-9800X performs better than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-9800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 outputs less heat than Core i7-9800X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-9800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.