Intel Core i5-11600K vs AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS

Core i5-11600K vs Ryzen 7 8745HS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11600K is faster than the Ryzen 7 8745HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8745HS in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 8745HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-11600K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 8745HS. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8745HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600K. The Ryzen 7 8745HS also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-11600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.