Intel Core i9-11900K vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i9 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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$ 559.99

$ 386.14

$ 173.85 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8281 points

10011 points

20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10754 points

11884 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7475 points

9348 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7270 points

9142 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8414 points

5% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

8010 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

212.26 points

263.24 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15519 points

18086 points

16% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11108 points

15051 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2402 points

2723 points

13% 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

3.5 GHz

4.20 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

120 W

4% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

96 MiB

499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

136th of 1,089

88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-11900K vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D performs better than the Core i9-11900K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11900K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11900K. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-11900K. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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. Indeed, the Core i9-11900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.