AMD Ryzen 3 5300U vs Intel Core i7-8700K

Ryzen 3 5300U vs Core i7-8700K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8700K is faster than the Ryzen 3 5300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 5300U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-8700K has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 5300U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5300U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 5300U. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 5300U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-8700K CPU because of its 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 3 5300U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700K. Despite this, the Core i7-8700K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 3 5300U.

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 Ryzen 3 5300U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.