Intel i7-10700K vs Ryzen 3700X vs 9700K Nvidia RTX 3070 10 Games Tested

The Ryzen 7 3700X is AMD’s answer to the Intel Core i7-9700k, which has ruled the under-$400 CPU space. The price separation between the two is nearly enough to fit 16GB of DDR4 in between. With a lower price yet twice as many threads, does the 3700X win out? Read on to find out. Both the 3700X and 9700k are 8-core CPU’s. While the 9700k has 8 threads, the 3700X has 16 – just as with the more expensive 9900k. This is an area where the 3700X shines, and far outperforms the 9700k. Expect a time reduction anywhere from 20-50% in performing some of these tasks.

Games make use of 8 threads or less, but with 16 threads, half are free for other tasks. This makes streaming another good use case for a CPU like the 3700X with a lot of threads. If you plan to stream on Twitch or another platform while playing 3D-intensive games, your games will be smoother and suffer less of an FPS hit. So we’ve outlined that streamers and those who plan to render, encode video, compress, or encrypt frequently will see an advantage with the 3700X.