Intel Core i7-8086K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5560U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5045 points

4% slightly better overall score

4837 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6765 points

6909 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4495 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

4216 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4358 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

4083 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

130.84 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

103.14 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

8686 points

13% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

7667 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7075 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6293 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1713 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1663 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

73% significantly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

25% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

344th of 1,089

361st of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8086K vs Ryzen 5 5560U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8086K beats the Ryzen 5 5560U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5560U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8086K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5560U. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5560U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8086K. Despite this, the Core i7-8086K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 5560U.

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 i7-8086K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.