Intel Core i9-7980XE vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Compare Intel Core X-series 18 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 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

$ 699.00
$ 386.14
$ 312.86 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10174 points
1% slightly better overall score
10011 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8591 points
11884 points
38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10736 points
14% slightly better multitasking score
9348 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10962 points
19% slightly better heavy workload score
9142 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11651 points
45% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
8010 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

376.16 points
42% significantly higher Blender score
263.24 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11124 points
15051 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1428 points
2723 points
90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

18
125% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

36
125% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
4.20 GHz
61% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5 GHz
19% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W
120 W
37% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1152 KiB
125% significantly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

75 MiB
96 MiB
28% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

84th of 1,089
88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-7980XE vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-7980XE is faster than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7980XE has significantly more cores with 18 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-7980XE. Also, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D outputs less heat than Core i9-7980XE thanks to a slightly 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 i9-7980XE has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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