AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs Intel Core i7-14700KF

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs Intel Core i7 (14th gen) 20 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 386.14
$ 357.07
$ 29.07 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10011 points
15150 points
51% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11884 points
15322 points
28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9348 points
15151 points
62% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9142 points
15281 points
67% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8010 points
14250 points
77% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

263.24 points
442.38 points
68% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15051 points
19170 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2723 points
2961 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
20
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
28
75% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.20 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed
3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
5.6 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
28 MiB
250% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

96 MiB
190% significantly more L3 cache
33 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

88th of 1,089
22nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7
Core i7 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April
2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-5600

Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs Core i7-14700KF specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-14700KF performs better than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-14700KF has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-14700KF. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-14700KF has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-14700KF.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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