Intel Core i7-8700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7530U

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4771 points

3% slightly better overall score

4604 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6744 points

7% slightly better gaming score

6298 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4149 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

4083 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4005 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

3956 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

109.37 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

104.53 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5964 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5620 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

1634 points

6% 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

60% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

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

380th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8700 vs Ryzen 5 7530U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700 beats the Ryzen 5 7530U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7530U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7530U. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7530U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 5 7530U 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 i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.