AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs Intel Core i7-7820X

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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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Price

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$ 149.99
$ 200.00 significantly less expensive
$ 349.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4724 points
5865 points
24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5587 points
7275 points
30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4432 points
5393 points
21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4341 points
5258 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3899 points
5958 points
52% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

128.00 points
165.28 points
29% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5049 points
7618 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

987 points
1368 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5186 points
7802 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1027 points
1416 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
3.6 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.3 GHz
16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
115% significantly lower TDP
140 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
45% significantly more L3 cache
11 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

372nd of 1,089
262nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2017 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 1700 vs Core i7-7820X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7820X beats the Ryzen 7 1700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 1700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7820X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 1700. Also, the Core i7-7820X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 1700 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.

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 Ryzen 7 1700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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