AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i9-7940X

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-7940X

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 170.00 significantly less expensive

$ 300.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

5222 points

25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

6% slightly better gaming score

6170 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

4938 points

45% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

4896 points

50% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

261.54 points

204% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

9233 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1299 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

10511 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1444 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

366% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 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

153% significantly lower TDP

165 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

896 KiB

133% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

28% slightly more L3 cache

25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

324th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2017 August

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 i9-7940X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7940X beats the Ryzen 5 3500X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3500X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-7940X. Despite this, the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7940X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.