AMD Ryzen 7 1800X vs Intel Core i7-9700KF

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 235.99

$ 229.00

$ 6.99 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5542 points

5685 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6612 points

8058 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5172 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

4882 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5056 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

4678 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4496 points

5875 points

30% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.60 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

123.75 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5675 points

6872 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1118 points

1584 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5693 points

7138 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1144 points

1689 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

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

4.9 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

289th of 1,089

275th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2019 February

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 i7-9700KF comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-9700KF beats the Ryzen 7 1800X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 1800X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 7 1800X has more threads. According to our data, the Ryzen 7 1800X and Core i7-9700KF have the same clock speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 1800X has more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700KF. The Ryzen 7 1800X 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 1800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.