Intel Core i9-7900X vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Compare Intel Core X-series 10 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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$ 689.95

$ 893.05 significantly less expensive

$ 1583.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7006 points

7% slightly better overall score

6502 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7653 points

7833 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6778 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

6045 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6719 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

5906 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

209.19 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

184.03 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8832 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7993 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1432 points

1652 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

4.4 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

65 W

115% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

512 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

204th 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

2017 May

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 i9-7900X vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7900X beats the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7900X has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. Indeed, the Core i9-7900X has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-7900X. Also, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 outputs less heat than Core i9-7900X 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 i9-7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.