Intel Core i7-8700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Desktop 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

5305 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7103 points

7718 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4499 points

4564 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4352 points

4406 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

126.15 points

0.19% slightly higher Blender score

125.92 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6565 points

7066 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1621 points

1942 points

19% slightly 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

8% slightly higher clock speed

3.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

35 W

171% 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

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

310th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2021 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

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 PRO 5650GE specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE is faster than the Core i7-8700K. 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 Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700K. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650GE 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.