AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs Intel Core i7-8086K

Ryzen 7 1700 vs Core i7-8086K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8086K beats the Ryzen 7 1700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 1700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 1700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-8086K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8086K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 1700. Also, the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 1700 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-8086K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 7 1700 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8086K. The Ryzen 7 1700 also has slightly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.