AMD Ryzen 7 2700X vs Intel Core i7-11700

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 11th 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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$ 170.99
$ 169.40 significantly less expensive
$ 340.39

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5776 points
7093 points
22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6952 points
9522 points
36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5375 points
6319 points
17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5256 points
6131 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4802 points
7705 points
60% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.45 points
163.14 points
9% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6148 points
8506 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1232 points
2046 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6111 points
8582 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1254 points
2114 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
47% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.35 GHz
4.9 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
95 W
10% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
20% slightly more L1 cache
640 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

271st of 1,089
184th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 2700X vs Core i7-11700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11700 is faster than the Ryzen 7 2700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 2700X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 2700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-11700 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 2700X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 2700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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