AMD Ryzen 5 1400 vs Intel Core i7-8700T

Ryzen 5 1400 vs Core i7-8700T specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8700T performs better than the Ryzen 5 1400. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-8700T has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1400. Indeed, the Core i7-8700T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1400. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1400. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700T. Despite this, the Core i7-8700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8700T outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1400 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 1400 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 1400.

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 Ryzen 5 1400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.