Intel Core i7-10700KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS

Core i7-10700KF vs Ryzen 5 8645HS specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700KF beats the Ryzen 5 8645HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8645HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-10700KF has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8645HS that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8645HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8645HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-10700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8645HS outputs less heat than Core i7-10700KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 8645HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10700KF. 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 i7-10700KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.