Intel Core i7-8700T vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U

Core i7-8700T vs Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700T beats the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number 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 7530U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U 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 7530U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700T. The Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U 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 i7-8700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.