AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs Intel Core i9-10900K

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 339.00
$ 105.11 significantly less expensive
$ 444.11

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

62 %
85 %
37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

76 %
91 %
19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

58 %
83 %
43% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

57 %
82 %
43% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9587
13640
42% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

192.40
249.67
29% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8116
9381
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1623
1723
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8058
9322
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1626
1725
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
3.7 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.3 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
92% significantly lower TDP
125 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
640 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
60% significantly more L2 cache
2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
60% significantly more L3 cache
20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

80th of 627
32nd of 627

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
10th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

July 2019
May 2020

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 3700X vs Core i9-10900K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10900K beats the Ryzen 7 3700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3700X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10900K has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Indeed, the Core i9-10900K has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 3700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Also, the Core i9-10900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 3700X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10900K CPU because of its 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 3700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900K. The Ryzen 7 3700X also has significantly 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 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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