Intel Core i7-11700F vs AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS

Core i7-11700F vs Ryzen 5 8640HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11700F is faster than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-11700F has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8640HS has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8640HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700F. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 8640HS has more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700F. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-11700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.