Intel Core i7-8700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

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Price

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$ 194.00
$ 79.07 significantly less expensive
$ 273.07

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5126 points
9772 points
90% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7099 points
11607 points
63% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4495 points
9145 points
103% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4348 points
8950 points
105% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5074 points
7917 points
56% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

126.15 points
245.43 points
94% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6565 points
13530 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1621 points
2650 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
4.2 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.1 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
8 MiB
433% 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

351st of 1,120
98th of 1,120

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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