Intel Core i7-11700K appears to be less powerful than the Ryzen 7 5800X

Anandtech has published a review on the highly anticipated 11th Gen 'Rocket Lake-S' i7-11700K processor, revealing that it isn't much more powerful than AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X.

Intel Core i7-11700K appears to be less powerful than the Ryzen 7 5800X

The Intel Core i7-11700K processor has about 8 cores and 16 threads that use the Cypress Cove cores. The processor in question is going to hit the market with a base clock speed of 3.6 GHz and can reach 5 GHz with Turbo 3.0 and 4.6 GHz on all cores. The amount of L2 cache is 512 KB and the L3 cache is 16 MB.

The comparison was made with the processors i9-9900KS, i7-10700K, Ryzen 7 5800X and Ryzen 7 4750G (APU), all with eight cores and sixteen threads.

Test of performance

We cannot put all the tests here, but the most representative ones that Anandtech did.

Handbrake

Video transcoding is a very common task these days, so a benchmark based on it can be critical.

This benchmark consisted of a 16 minute YouTube video @ 1080p30 h264 and was converted to three different files: (1) 480p30 'Discord', (2) 720p30 'YouTube', and (3) 4K60 HEVC.

The Ryzen 7 5800X dominates in this section, except for a test in which the 11700K takes a slight advantage and remains above all. In 4K video encoding, the 5800X is the best.

WinRAR

In this test, a lot of files were used to compress them. Video files, audio files and thousands of small files of different formats.

In total, the files weighed about 1.96GB and it took about 48.06 seconds to compress on a 11700K, slower than 45.96 seconds than on the Ryzen 7 5800X.

Game Testing

One of the tests that most interest us is those of video games. There are a ton of games that have been tested, but in this overview, we are left with three: Far Cry 5, Red Dead Redemption 2, Final Fantasy XV.

The fps differences in all games is negligible taking the 1080p resolution as a reference, although it depends on the video game. We see that the Ryzen 7 4750G APU cannot keep up with the others in Far Cry 5, which is much more CPU-dependent. You can see the complete review from the following link, there are also tests in other resolutions where we do not see many notable differences between the Ryzen 7 5800X and the i7-11700K. You can see the full review from this link.