AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs Intel Core i9-11980HK

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6345 points

6435 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7643 points

8714 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5911 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

5726 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5785 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

5566 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6052 points

10988 points

81% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

180.28 points

206.36 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

768 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

233rd of 1,089

224th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

11th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 7 3700X vs Core i9-11980HK benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 3700X performs better than the Core i9-11980HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-11980HK in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 3700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-11980HK. Despite this, the Core i9-11980HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11980HK outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 3700X thanks to a 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 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.