Intel Core i7-10700F vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

Core i7-10700F vs Ryzen 9 8945HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HX beats the Core i7-10700F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10700F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-10700F has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-10700F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-10700F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8945HX outputs less heat than Core i7-10700F thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10700F. The Ryzen 9 8945HX also has significantly 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 i7-10700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.