AMD Ryzen 7 5800H vs Intel Core i7-8700

Ryzen 7 5800H vs Core i7-8700 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5800H performs better than the Core i7-8700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-8700 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8700. According to our data, the Ryzen 7 5800H and Core i7-8700 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-8700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-8700 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 5800H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700. The Ryzen 7 5800H also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 5800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.