AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs Intel Core i7-8086K

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Core i7-8086K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 2700 beats the Core i7-8086K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8086K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 2700 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 2700. Also, the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 2700 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 2700 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8086K. The Ryzen 7 2700 also has slightly 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 7 2700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.