AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i7-860

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Core i7-860 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700U beats the Core i7-860 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-860 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5700U has significantly more cores than the Core i7-860. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700U has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-860. It also has more threads than the Core i7-860. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-860 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-860 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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