AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs Intel Core i5-8600K

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Core i5-8600K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 2700 performs better than the Core i5-8600K. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-8600K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 2700. Also, the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 2700 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 7 2700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8600K. The Ryzen 7 2700 also has significantly 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 2700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.