AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i7-7700K

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i7-7700K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X beats the Core i7-7700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7700K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7700K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-7700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-7700K 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-7700K. 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.