AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i7-8700K

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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$ 912.90

$ 194.00

$ 718.90 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4897 points

5130 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6449 points

7103 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4413 points

4499 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4297 points

4352 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4322 points

5074 points

17% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

118.70 points

126.15 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5138 points

6462 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1359 points

1549 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5383 points

6565 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1391 points

1621 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

1.8 GHz

3.7 GHz

105% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

4.7 GHz

9% 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

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

356th of 1,089

335th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

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 5700U vs Core i7-8700K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8700K is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-8700K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5700U. Also, the Core i7-8700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-8700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 5700U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700K. Despite this, the Core i7-8700K 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.