Intel Core i7-8700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

Core i7-8700K vs Ryzen 7 7840HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7840HS 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has slightly more cores than the Core i7-8700K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700K. Also, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7840HS 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 7 7840HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700K. The Ryzen 7 7840HS 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.