Intel Core i7-11700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

Core i7-11700 vs Ryzen 5 8600G benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8600G is faster than the Core i7-11700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11700 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-11700 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 8600G. Indeed, the Core i7-11700 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 8600G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8600G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8600G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700. Also, the Ryzen 5 8600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8600G outputs less heat than Core i7-11700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 8600G has more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i7-11700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.