Intel Core i7-6700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

Core i7-6700K vs Ryzen 7 8700G specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 8700G is faster than the Core i7-6700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 8700G has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6700K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8700G has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700K. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8700G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6700K. Also, the Ryzen 7 8700G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 8700G outputs less heat than Core i7-6700K 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 7 8700G has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700K. The Ryzen 7 8700G 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 i7-6700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.