Intel Core i7-8700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Core i7-8700 vs Ryzen 7 5800X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-8700 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8700 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D also has significantly 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.