Intel Core i7-8086K vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Core i7-8086K vs EPYC 74F3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the EPYC 74F3 beats the Core i7-8086K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8086K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more cores with 9 cores whereas the Core i7-8086K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8086K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the EPYC 74F3. A Core i7-8086K CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 74F3 CPU because of its 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 EPYC 74F3 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8086K. The EPYC 74F3 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 i7-8086K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.