Intel Core i7 8700K 's Advantages
Integrated graphics card
Lower TDP (95W vs 350W)
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
Higher specification of memory (DDR5-5200 vs DDR4-2666)
Larger memory bandwidth (166.4GB/s vs 41.6GB/s)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3.0)
Higher base frequency (4GHz vs 3.7GHz)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 12MB)