AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs Intel Core i7-3770

Ryzen 7 1700X vs Core i7-3770 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 1700X beats the Core i7-3770 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-3770 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3770 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 1700X. Also, the Core i7-3770 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3770 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 1700X thanks to a slightly 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 Ryzen 7 1700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-3770. The Ryzen 7 1700X 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 7 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.