Ryzen 7 2700 vs Core i7-8700 benchmarks
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 2700 is faster than the Core i7-8700. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 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 i7-8700 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 7 2700 and Core i7-8700 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher 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 7 2700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. 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.
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