Intel Core i9-7940X vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Compare Intel Core X-series 14 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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 300.00

$ 2098.95 significantly less expensive

$ 2398.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5222 points

5669 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6170 points

7130 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4938 points

5211 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4896 points

5104 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

261.54 points

91% significantly higher Blender score

136.28 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10511 points

12689 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1444 points

0.42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1438 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

55% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

55% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.19 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W

45% significantly lower TDP

240 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

896 KiB

55% significantly more L1 cache

576 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

32 MiB

28% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

324th 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 August

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 i9-7940X vs EPYC 74F3 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the EPYC 74F3 performs better than the Core i9-7940X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7940X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the EPYC 74F3 has 9 cores. It also has more threads than the EPYC 74F3. Our comparison shows that the EPYC 74F3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-7940X. A Core i9-7940X 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 i9-7940X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.