Intel Core i7-10700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS

Core i7-10700K vs Ryzen 5 8640HS comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-10700K performs better than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-10700K has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8640HS that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 8640HS. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700K. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-10700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.