Intel Core i7-8700K vs AMD Ryzen 9 7845HX

Core i7-8700K vs Ryzen 9 7845HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7845HX 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7845HX has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8700K. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7845HX has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7845HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7845HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7845HX 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 9 7845HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700K. The Ryzen 9 7845HX also has significantly 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.