Intel Core i7-8700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4771 points

6729 points

41% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6744 points

8309 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4149 points

6222 points

49% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4005 points

6086 points

51% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4845 points

6869 points

41% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

109.37 points

174.92 points

59% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5964 points

8807 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

1907 points

24% 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

3.20 GHz

0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4.75 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

54 W

20% slightly 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

208th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8700 vs Ryzen 7 7735HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7735HS beats the Core i7-8700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 7735HS 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 Ryzen 7 7735HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8700. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7735HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 7 7735HS 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.