Intel Core i7-8700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 3 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Price

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$ 150.25

$ 145.00

$ 5.25 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4771 points

5020 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6744 points

6843 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4149 points

4448 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4005 points

4307 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4845 points

5545 points

14% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

109.37 points

141.41 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.6 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

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

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

368th of 1,089

345th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2024 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 i7-8700 vs Ryzen 5 5500GT benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8700 performs better than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500GT in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8700 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500GT has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8700. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5500GT has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 5 5500GT also has slightly 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 i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.