Intel Core i7-8700K vs AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 3 PRO 4000 Series Desktop 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 194.00
$ 3.16 slightly less expensive
$ 197.16

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5130 points
37% slightly better overall score
3739 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7103 points
18% slightly better gaming score
5974 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4499 points
46% significantly better multitasking score
3070 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4352 points
47% significantly better heavy workload score
2946 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

126.15 points
58% significantly higher Blender score
79.49 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6565 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4602 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1621 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1465 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
3.80 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed
4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
2 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

335th of 1,089
457th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 3 PRO 4000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-8700K vs Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700K beats the Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-8700K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8700K. The Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G outputs less heat than Core i7-8700K 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 3 PRO 4350G has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700K. Despite this, the Core i7-8700K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 PRO 4350G.

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 i7-8700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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