Intel Core i7-8700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD 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
2% slightly better overall score
4985 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7103 points
8% slightly better gaming score
6530 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4499 points
0.07% slightly better multitasking score
4496 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4352 points
4354 points
0.05% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

126.15 points
44% significantly higher Blender score
87.35 points

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
68% significantly higher clock speed
2.20 GHz

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
49% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

335th of 1,089
350th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
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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
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-8700K vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8700K is faster than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700K. Despite this, the Core i7-8700K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-8700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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