AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core i7-7700

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Core i7-7700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5950X beats the Core i7-7700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7700 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7700. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-7700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-7700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-7700 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5950X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-7700. The Ryzen 9 5950X 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 9 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.