Intel Core i7-8700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-8700K

AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5130 points

5427 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7103 points

7307 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4499 points

4865 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4352 points

4745 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

126.15 points

159.68 points

26% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

3.20 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

4 MiB

166% 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

300th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8700K vs Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-8700K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700K. The Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-8700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.