AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs Intel Core i7-1270P

Ryzen 7 1700X vs Core i7-1270P comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1270P beats the Ryzen 7 1700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 1700X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1270P has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 1700X has 8 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 1700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1270P. Despite this, the Core i7-1270P has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1270P outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 1700X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-1270P has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 1700X. The Core i7-1270P also has slightly 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 7 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.