Intel Core i7-8700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

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

5821 points

22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6744 points

7228 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4149 points

5452 points

31% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4005 points

5384 points

34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

109.37 points

166.92 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5964 points

9022 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

2060 points

34% 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

3.30 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5.1 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

28 W

132% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

8 MiB

433% 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

266th 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 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8700 vs Ryzen 7 8840HS specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 8840HS performs better than the Core i7-8700. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has slightly more cores than the Core i7-8700. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 7 8840HS also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-8700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.