AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 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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$ 224.25

$ 150.25

$ 74.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points

34% slightly better overall score

4771 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

29% slightly better gaming score

6744 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

36% slightly better multitasking score

4149 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

4005 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5675 points

17% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

4845 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

109.37 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5865 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1478 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5964 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1536 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

Identical

4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

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

32 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th 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

2020 May

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 5600X vs Core i7-8700 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600X performs better than the Core i7-8700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700. In addition, both chips have the same 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 5 5600X also has significantly 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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.