Intel Core i7-8700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5825U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5825U

Price

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$ 150.25

$ 905.77 significantly less expensive

$ 1056.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4771 points

4888 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6744 points

3% slightly better gaming score

6523 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4149 points

4398 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4005 points

4293 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

109.37 points

131.31 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5964 points

6417 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

1718 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

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

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

4 MiB

166% 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

357th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 7 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2022 January

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 7 5825U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5825U performs better than the Core i7-8700. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5825U 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5825U. Also, the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5825U 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 7 5825U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 7 5825U 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.