AMD Ryzen 7 2700X vs Intel Core i7-9700F

Ryzen 7 2700X vs Core i7-9700F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 2700X beats the Core i7-9700F in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-9700F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 7 2700X has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 2700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700F. Despite this, the Core i7-9700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9700F outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 2700X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 2700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700F. The Ryzen 7 2700X 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 2700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.