Intel Core i7-8700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 150.25
$ 149.48
$ 0.77 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4775 points
6416 points
34% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6751 points
8665 points
28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4152 points
5694 points
37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4008 points
5516 points
37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4845 points
5539 points
14% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

109.37 points
139.36 points
27% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5964 points
7974 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points
2039 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.2 GHz
4.59 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
Identical
4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

374th of 1,096
230th of 1,096

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

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-8700 vs Ryzen 5 5600GT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600GT beats the Core i7-8700 in overall performance. 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 5 5600GT also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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