Intel Core i7-8700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

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

16% slightly better overall score

4404 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7103 points

8% slightly better gaming score

6525 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4499 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

3759 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4352 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

3630 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

126.15 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

86.99 points

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

60% significantly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% 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

400th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

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 7430U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8700K performs better than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7430U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7430U. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7430U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700K. The Ryzen 5 7430U also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.