Intel Core i7 7700K 's Advantages
Integrated graphics card
Higher base frequency (4.2GHz vs 4GHz)
Lower TDP (91W vs 350W)
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 9 months late
Higher specification of memory (DDR5-5200 vs DDR4-2400)
Larger memory bandwidth (166.4GB/s vs 35.76GB/s)
Newer PCIe version (5 vs 3.0)
Larger L3 cache size (128MB vs 8MB)