Intel Core i7-8700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

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Price

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$ 194.00
$ 135.32
$ 58.68 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5126 points
6267 points
22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7099 points
8339 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4495 points
5602 points
24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4348 points
5429 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5074 points
5664 points
11% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

126.15 points
150.92 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6462 points
8330 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1549 points
1980 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6565 points
8600 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1621 points
2052 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 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
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
3 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
32 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

349th of 1,114
250th of 1,114

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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