Intel Core i7-8086K vs AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX

Core i7-8086K vs Ryzen 9 7845HX benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7845HX is faster than the Core i7-8086K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8086K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7845HX has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-8086K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8086K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7845HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7845HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7845HX 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 9 7845HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8086K. The Ryzen 9 7845HX also has significantly 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.