AMD Ryzen 5 2600 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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$ 99.99

$ 50.26 significantly less expensive

$ 150.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points

4771 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points

6744 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points

4149 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points

4005 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3464 points

4845 points

39% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points

109.37 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4788 points

5865 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1132 points

1478 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4891 points

5964 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points

1536 points

32% 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

3.4 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.6 GHz

17% 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

404th 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

2018 April

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 2600 vs Core i7-8700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8700 beats the Ryzen 5 2600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700. 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. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 2600 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 5 2600 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 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.