AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i7-7820X

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-7820X

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 219.99 significantly less expensive

$ 349.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

5865 points

40% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

7275 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

5393 points

59% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

5258 points

61% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points

5958 points

54% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

165.28 points

92% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

7618 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1368 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

7802 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1416 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

Identical

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.3 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

115% significantly lower TDP

140 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

190% significantly more L3 cache

11 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

262nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2017 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Core i7-7820X specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-7820X performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-7820X has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3500X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. According to our data, the Ryzen 5 3500X and Core i7-7820X have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-7820X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-7820X CPU because of its 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.