AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs Intel Core i7-7700K

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3400 MHz / Cores: 8 / Mar 2017
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
Intel Core i7-7700K
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
4200 MHz / Cores: 4 / Sep 2016
Intel Core i7-7700K

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    115%
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    100%
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    136%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    132%
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 7 1700X

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 32% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 15% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i7-7700K

Much higher single threaded performance (around 36% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD Ryzen 7 1700X.

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 7 1700X

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Ryzen 7 1700X

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 7 1700X

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 7 1700XIntel Core i7-7700K
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SMT
XFR
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
AVX2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
HTT
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
FMA3
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
Boost 2.0

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 7 1700XIntel Core i7-7700K
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_Kabylake
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZenvsKaby Lake
Release DateMar 2017vsSep 2016

Cores

AMD Ryzen 7 1700XIntel Core i7-7700K
Cores8vs4
Threads16vs8
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsIntel HD Graphics 630

Cache

AMD Ryzen 7 1700XIntel Core i7-7700K
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache16384 KB (shared)vs8192 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 7 1700XIntel Core i7-7700K
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1151
Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
PackageuPGAvs
Die Size192mm²vsunknown
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 7 1700XIntel Core i7-7700K
Cpu Frequency3400 MHzvs4200 MHz
Turbo Clock3800 MHzvs4500 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP95 Wvs95 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    4180 points
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    5400 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    36502 points
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    24192 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Rendering: LuxMark CPU OpenCL

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    2899
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    2465

points - higher is better

Rendering: LuxMark CPU C++

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    3759
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    2884

points - higher is better

Rendering: POV-Ray 3.7

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    3236
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    2097

points per second - higher is better

7-zip

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    37920
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    27343

MIPS - higher is better

3D Particle Movement (Single Threaded)

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    97.27
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    150.72

points - higher is better

3D Particle Movement (Multi Threaded)

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    1121.77
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    882.98

points - higher is better

3DMark06 CPU

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    9076
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    10156

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Single

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    4662
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    7304.5

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Multi

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    31950
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    28903

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    1.73
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    2.19

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    16.95
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    10.37

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    154
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    196

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    1537
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    972

points - higher is better

SuperPI 1M

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    10.83
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    8.17

seconds - lower is better

wPrime 32

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    4.89
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    5.56

seconds - lower is better

WinRAR 4.0

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    3728
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    5823

MB/s - higher is better

x264 Pass 1

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    180
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    230

FPS - higher is better

x264 Pass 2

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    90.05
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    61.6

FPS - higher is better

TrueCrypt AES

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    8.95
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    5.45

GB/s

TrueCrypt Twofish

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    1.4
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    0.93

GB/s

TrueCrypt Serpent

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
    0.9
  • Intel Core i7-7700K
    0.55

GB/s