Intel Core i7-8700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Core i7-8700 vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition beats the Core i7-8700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores 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 Microsoft Surface Edition. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

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.