Intel Core i7-8700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 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
$ 45.05 slightly less expensive
$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4771 points
8673 points
81% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6744 points
12393 points
83% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4149 points
7498 points
80% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4005 points
7245 points
80% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4845 points
7587 points
56% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

109.37 points
233.29 points
113% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5964 points
14957 points
150% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points
3338 points
117% significantly 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
3.9 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5.4 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed

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
480 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

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
32 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

368th of 1,089
118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5

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 9600X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 9600X 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 9600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 5 9600X also has significantly 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.

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