Intel Core i9-7940X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel Core X-series 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 300.00
$ 212.99
$ 87.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5222 points
7399 points
41% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6170 points
8984 points
45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4938 points
6877 points
39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4896 points
6735 points
37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

261.54 points
26% slightly higher Blender score
207.23 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9233 points
9632 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1299 points
2079 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10511 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
9706 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1444 points
2147 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
75% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
75% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.40 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
4.6 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

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

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

896 KiB
75% significantly more L1 cache
512 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
170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-7940X vs Ryzen 7 5700X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5700X is faster than the Core i9-7940X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7940X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-7940X. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X outputs less heat than Core i9-7940X 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 i9-7940X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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