Intel Core i7-8700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

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

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Price

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$ 150.25

$ 135.32

$ 14.93 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4771 points

6267 points

31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6744 points

8333 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4149 points

5604 points

35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4005 points

5431 points

35% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4845 points

5664 points

16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

109.37 points

150.92 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5865 points

8330 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1478 points

1980 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5964 points

8600 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

2052 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.50 GHz

9% 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

32 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

368th of 1,089

237th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2022 April

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 5600 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600 is faster than the Core i7-8700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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 5600 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 5 5600 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 i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.