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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