Intel Core i7-8700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U

Core i7-8700K vs Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700K beats the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U in all gaming tests too.

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 PRO 4650U. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U 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 PRO 4650U 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 PRO 4650U.

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.