Intel Core i7-8086K vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD 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
1% slightly better overall score
4985 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6765 points
3% slightly better gaming score
6530 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4495 points
4496 points
0.02% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4358 points
0.09% slightly better heavy workload score
4354 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

130.84 points
49% significantly higher Blender score
87.35 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz
81% significantly higher clock speed
2.20 GHz

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
350th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-8086K vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8086K is faster than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8086K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8086K. Despite this, the Core i7-8086K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-8086K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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