Intel Core i7-8700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600

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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AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Price

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$ 194.00

$ 190.07

$ 3.93 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5130 points

8046 points

56% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7103 points

10893 points

53% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4499 points

7125 points

58% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4352 points

6898 points

58% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5074 points

6614 points

30% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

126.15 points

199.23 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6462 points

11709 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1549 points

2649 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6565 points

12203 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1621 points

2751 points

69% significantly 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

3.80 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

5.1 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

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

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

6 MiB

300% 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

335th of 1,089

147th 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

2023 January

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 7600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7600 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700K. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700K. The Ryzen 5 7600 also has significantly 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.