AMD Ryzen 7 1800X 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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Intel Core i7-7820X

Price

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$ 235.99

$ 114.00 significantly less expensive

$ 349.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5542 points

5865 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6612 points

7275 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5172 points

5393 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5056 points

5258 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4496 points

5958 points

32% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.60 points

165.28 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5675 points

7618 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1118 points

1368 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5693 points

7802 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1144 points

1416 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

Identical

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.3 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

47% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

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

289th 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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 7 1800X vs Core i7-7820X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-7820X is faster than the Ryzen 7 1800X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 1800X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Ryzen 7 1800X and Core i7-7820X have the same clock speed. A Ryzen 7 1800X 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.

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 1800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.