AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs Intel Core i9-8950HK

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Core i9-8950HK benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 2700 beats the Core i9-8950HK in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-8950HK in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 2700 has slightly more cores than the Core i9-8950HK. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 2700 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i9-8950HK. It also has more threads than the Core i9-8950HK. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-8950HK. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-8950HK outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 2700 thanks to a 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 i9-8950HK. 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.