Intel Core i7-8700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 7535U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 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
5343 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7103 points
7732 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4499 points
4604 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4352 points
4446 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

126.15 points
14% slightly higher Blender score
110.60 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6565 points
0.29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6546 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1621 points
1753 points
8% 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
27% slightly higher clock speed
2.90 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
3% slightly higher turbo speed
4.55 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
28 W
239% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

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
307th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5

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 5 7535U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7535U beats the Core i7-8700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount 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 7535U. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7535U 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7535U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700K. The Ryzen 5 7535U 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.

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