Intel Core i7-8700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 7735U

Core i7-8700K vs Ryzen 7 7735U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7735U beats the Core i7-8700K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 7735U has slightly more cores than the Core i7-8700K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7735U has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8700K. 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 7735U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7735U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7735U 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 7735U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700K. The Ryzen 7 7735U also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.