Intel Core i7-8705G vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

2382 points

3137 points

31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3668 points

4530 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1988 points

2722 points

36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1908 points

2633 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

61.13 points

86.82 points

42% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3988 points

5816 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1284 points

1691 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

55% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.5 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

3 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

646th of 1,089

519th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 February

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8705G vs Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U beats the Core i7-8705G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8705G in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-8705G that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8705G. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8705G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8705G. The Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i7-8705G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.