AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i7-11700

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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Intel Core i7-11700

Price

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$ 219.80

$ 120.59 significantly less expensive

$ 340.39

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points

10% slightly better overall score

7093 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points

9522 points

0.46% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

6319 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

6131 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7634 points

7705 points

0.93% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

163.14 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15711 points

52% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

10287 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10085 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

8506 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2119 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

2046 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

8582 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2114 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

4.9 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

95 W

10% slightly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

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

151st of 1,089

184th 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 May

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i7-11700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X is faster than the Core i7-11700. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 5800X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-11700 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 7 5800X 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 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.