Intel Core i9-7900X vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Compare Intel Core X-series 10 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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$ 689.95

$ 1709.00 significantly less expensive

$ 2398.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7006 points

23% slightly better overall score

5669 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7653 points

7% slightly better gaming score

7130 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6778 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

5211 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6719 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

5104 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

209.19 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

136.28 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8832 points

12689 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1432 points

1438 points

0.42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

11% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

11% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.19 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

71% significantly lower TDP

240 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

11% slightly more L1 cache

576 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

14 MiB

32 MiB

128% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

193rd of 1,089

278th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-7900X vs EPYC 74F3 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the EPYC 74F3 is faster than the Core i9-7900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7900X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-7900X has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the EPYC 74F3 that has 9 cores. It also has more threads than the EPYC 74F3. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the EPYC 74F3. A Core i9-7900X 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 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. Indeed, the Core i9-7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.