AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs Intel Core i7-8700

Ryzen 7 1700X vs Core i7-8700 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 1700X is faster than the Core i7-8700. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 1700X has slightly more cores than the Core i7-8700. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8700. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8700 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 1700X thanks to a 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 1700X has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 7 1700X 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 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.