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Intel Core i7-7700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 4980U

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-7700K

Rank 2 - 99 %

AMD Ryzen 7 4980U

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 58 %

Intel Core i7-7700K

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 7 4980U

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.50 GHz

1,216 pts

8C / 16T · 4.40 GHz

1,262 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.40 GHz

6,055 pts

8C / 16T · 2.00 GHz

10,214 pts

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.50 GHz

466 cb

8C / 16T · 4.40 GHz

491 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.50 GHz

1,229

8C / 16T · 4.40 GHz

1,169

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.40 GHz

2,257 cb

8C / 16T · 2.00 GHz

3,911 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

4C / 8T · 4.40 GHz

4,719

8C / 16T · 2.00 GHz

7,865

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel HD Graphics 630

442

AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir)

1,997

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-7700K	AMD Ryzen 7 4980U
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	AMD Ryzen 7 (79)
CPU group	Intel Core i 7000 (17)	AMD Ryzen 4000U (11)
Architecture	Kaby Lake S	Renoir (Zen 2)
Technology	14 nm	7 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1151	FP6
Predecessor	Intel Core i7-6700K
Successor	Intel Core i7-8700K

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-7700K	AMD Ryzen 7 4980U
CPU Cores / Threads	4 / 8	8 / 16
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	4x	8x
Frequency:	4.20 GHz	2.00 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	4.50 GHz	4.40 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	4.40 GHz
L2-Cache		4.00 MB
L3-Cache	8.00 MB	8.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-7700K	AMD Ryzen 7 4980U
GPU name	Intel HD Graphics 630	AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Renoir)
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.15 GHz	0.40 - 1.95 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	8 / 512
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	64 GB	8 GB
Technology	14 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q2/2016	Q1/2020

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-7700K	AMD Ryzen 7 4980U
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-7700K	AMD Ryzen 7 4980U
Memory	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s) DDR3-1600 (25.6 GB/s)	LPDDR4-4266 (51.2 GB/s) DDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	3.0 x 16	3.0 x 12
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s	11.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-7700K	AMD Ryzen 7 4980U
TDP	91 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		25 W
TDP down		10 W
T. junction max.		105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-7700K	AMD Ryzen 7 4980U
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release date	Q1/2017	Q2/2021
Release price	350 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-7700K is 4.1 stars (113 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 7 4980U has received 5.0 stars (5 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-7700K
4C / 8T · 4.20 - 4.50 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 7 4980U
8C / 16T · 2.00 - 4.40 GHz

★★★★★