Intel Core i7-8700T vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2945 points
4208 points
42% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4207 points
6127 points
45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2558 points
3638 points
42% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2473 points
3518 points
42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

92.37 points
94.21 points
1% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4733 points
5599 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1336 points
1594 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed
2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.2 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
15 W
133% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
3 MiB
100% 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

546th of 1,089
420th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-8700T vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U beats the Core i7-8700T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700T in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8700T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700T. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U also has slightly 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 i7-8700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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