Intel Core i9-7980XE vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Core i9-7980XE vs Ryzen 7 7700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-7980XE is faster than the Ryzen 7 7700. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-7980XE has significantly more cores with 18 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7700 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-7980XE. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7700 outputs less heat than Core i9-7980XE thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-7980XE has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.