AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i7-8086K

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Core i7-8086K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8086K beats the Ryzen 7 5700U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5700U has slightly more cores than the Core i7-8086K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700U has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-8086K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8086K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8086K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5700U. Also, the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-8086K CPU because of its significantly 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 5700U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8086K. Despite this, the Core i7-8086K has significantly 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.