AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs Intel Core i7-4790K

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Price

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$ 195.99
$ 87.13 significantly less expensive
$ 283.12

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4528 points
44% significantly better overall score
3130 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5692 points
12% slightly better gaming score
5057 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4151 points
62% significantly better multitasking score
2561 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4054 points
64% significantly better heavy workload score
2459 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4254 points
51% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
2813 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

131.79 points
79% significantly higher Blender score
73.53 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5551 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4415 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1070 points
1357 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5573 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4402 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points
1403 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
4 GHz
17% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4.4 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
88 W
7% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

401st of 1,114
535th of 1,114

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

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