AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i7-7700K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 7th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-7700K

Price

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$ 79.99

$ 105.01 significantly less expensive

$ 185.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points

3620 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

5762 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

2983 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

2864 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3720 points

7% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

3473 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

85.21 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points

5070 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points

1524 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

5174 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

1596 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

4.2 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.5 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

471st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

7th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Core i7-7700K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-7700K performs better than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1500X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1500X. Also, the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1500X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-7700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1500X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-7700K. The Ryzen 5 1500X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.