Intel Core i7-8700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600H

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 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

5130 points

5291 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7103 points

0.10% slightly better gaming score

7096 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4499 points

4729 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4352 points

4589 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

126.15 points

129.09 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6565 points

7501 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1621 points

1825 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

45 W

111% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

335th of 1,089

311th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8700K vs Ryzen 5 6600H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 6600H beats the Core i7-8700K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 6600H. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 6600H 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. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 6600H has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700K. The Ryzen 5 6600H 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.