Core i7-8700T vs Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U comparison
In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700T beats the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-8700T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8700T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Also, the Core i7-8700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U outputs less heat than Core i7-8700T thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700T. Despite this, the Core i7-8700T has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U.
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 i7-8700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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