Intel Core i7-8086K vs AMD Ryzen 7 5825U

Core i7-8086K vs Ryzen 7 5825U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5825U 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 Ryzen 7 5825U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-8086K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8086K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8086K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5825U. Also, the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5825U outputs less heat than Core i7-8086K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 5825U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8086K. The Ryzen 7 5825U also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.