AMD Ryzen 7 4700U vs Intel Core i5-8600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4283 points

4307 points

0.56% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6364 points

6905 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3616 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

3493 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3464 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

3351 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

86.75 points

89.16 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4973 points

5426 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1368 points

1483 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4938 points

5747 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1356 points

1581 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3.6 GHz

79% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.3 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

9 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

411th of 1,089

408th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile

8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 7 4700U vs Core i5-8600K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8600K performs better than the Ryzen 7 4700U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 4700U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 4700U has slightly more cores than the Core i5-8600K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 4700U has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-8600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 4700U. Also, the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 4700U 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 4700U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8600K. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 4700U.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 7 4700U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.