AMD Ryzen 7 5800 vs Intel Core i7-7700K

Ryzen 7 5800 vs Core i7-7700K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-7700K performs better than the Ryzen 7 5800. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5800 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-7700K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-7700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 5800 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-7700K. The Ryzen 7 5800 also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.