AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i7-8700

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

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Intel Core i7-8700

Price

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$ 58.40

$ 91.85 significantly less expensive

$ 150.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points

4771 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points

6744 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

4149 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points

4005 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3194 points

4845 points

51% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points

109.37 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points

5865 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points

1478 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points

5964 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points

1536 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

Identical

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.6 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089

368th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i7-8700 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8700 performs better than the Ryzen 5 1600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Ryzen 5 1600 and Core i7-8700 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 5 1600 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 Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.