AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i7-8086K

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i7-8086K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X is faster than the Core i7-8086K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8086K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-8086K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8086K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Also, the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8086K outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X thanks to a slightly 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 5800X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8086K. The Ryzen 7 5800X also has significantly 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 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.