Intel Core i7-8700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Core i7-8700K vs Ryzen 5 5500GT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8700K is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500GT in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-8700K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Indeed, the Core i7-8700K has 6 cores compared to 3 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5500GT. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500GT 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 5 5500GT has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700K. The Ryzen 5 5500GT 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 i7-8700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.