AMD Ryzen 7 2700X vs Intel Core i3-8350K

Ryzen 7 2700X vs Core i3-8350K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 2700X is faster than the Core i3-8350K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8350K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i3-8350K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8350K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-8350K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 2700X. The Core i3-8350K outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 2700X thanks to a slightly 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 2700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-8350K. The Ryzen 7 2700X 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 2700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.