AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs Intel Core i7-7800X

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Core i7-7800X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 2700 is faster than the Core i7-7800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7800X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-7800X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7800X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-7800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 2700. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 2700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 2700 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-7800X 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 2700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.