3700X's 8-cores is a generational leap above the 7700k's quad core for modern games. They aren't comparable at all. I ran a GTX 1080 and then an RTX 3080. The

3700X's 8-cores is a generational leap above the 7700k's quad core for modern games. They aren't comparable at all. I ran a GTX 1080 and then an RTX 3080. The performance was not very good in modern games designed for current gen consoles like pretty much any BR game for example. Some games got high FPS at times but with low minimum FPS.