Intel Core i7-8700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series 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
2% slightly better overall score
4640 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6744 points
10% slightly better gaming score
6078 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4149 points
4227 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4005 points
4149 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

109.37 points
119.67 points
9% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5865 points
6258 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1478 points
1694 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5964 points
6151 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points
1677 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
68% significantly higher clock speed
1.90 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

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
376th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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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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