Intel Core i9-7940X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

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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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Price

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$ 300.00

$ 99.61 significantly less expensive

$ 399.61

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5222 points

7335 points

40% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6170 points

8938 points

44% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4938 points

6797 points

37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4896 points

6646 points

35% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

261.54 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

209.61 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9233 points

10897 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1299 points

2052 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10511 points

11047 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1444 points

2117 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

75% significantly more threads

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

4.5 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W

105 W

57% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

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

96 MiB

283% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

324th of 1,089

172nd 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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-7940X vs Ryzen 7 5800X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-7940X. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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.

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.