AMD Ryzen 7 8700F vs Intel Xeon Gold 6230

Ryzen 7 8700F vs Xeon Gold 6230 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 8700F beats the Xeon Gold 6230 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon Gold 6230 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Gold 6230 has significantly more cores with 20 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 8700F that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8700F has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6230. Also, the Ryzen 7 8700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 8700F CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6230 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 Xeon Gold 6230 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 8700F. The Xeon Gold 6230 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.