Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i7-8700K specs and performance
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600G is faster than the Core i7-8700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700K in all gaming tests too.
Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700K. Despite this, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600G 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 5 5600G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700K. The Ryzen 5 5600G also has slightly 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 Ryzen 5 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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