Intel Core i7-8700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 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

5252 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6744 points

7216 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4149 points

4621 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4005 points

4465 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

109.37 points

172.19 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5964 points

8481 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

2104 points

36% 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

4.9 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

28 W

132% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

6 MiB

300% 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

317th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2023 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8700 vs Ryzen 5 7640U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7640U 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7640U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8700. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7640U outputs less heat than Core i7-8700 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 7640U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 5 7640U 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.