AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT vs Intel Core i7-11700KF

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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 230.00
$ 69.00 many less expensive
$ 299.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7216 points
1% slightly better overall score
7085 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8527 points
9129 points
7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6778 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
6412 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6644 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score
6235 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6357 points
8133 points
27% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.87 points
197.54 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8580 points
9526 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1738 points
2119 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8527 points
10286 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1771 points
2275 points
28% slightly 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

3.9 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
19% slightly lower TDP
125 W

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
Identical
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

176th of 1,089
185th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 3800XT vs Core i7-11700KF benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-11700KF performs better than the Ryzen 7 3800XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800XT in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3800XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-11700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 3800XT CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-11700KF CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 3800XT 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 3800XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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