Core i7-8700 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U comparison
In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700 beats the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U in all gaming tests too.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-8700 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. Also, the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U 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 PRO 5850U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U 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.
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