AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i5-8600K

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Core i5-8600K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700U beats the Core i5-8600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-8600K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Ryzen 7 5700U 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 5700U 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 5700U.

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 5700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.