Intel Core i7-8700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800H

Core i7-8700 vs Ryzen 7 6800H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 6800H performs better than the Core i7-8700. 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 6800H 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 6800H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700. Also, the Ryzen 7 6800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 6800H 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 6800H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 7 6800H 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.