Intel Core i7-8700 vs AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370

Core i7-8700 vs Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 is faster 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 AI 9 HX 370 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-8700 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. Despite this, the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 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. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 also has significantly 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.