AMD Ryzen 7 8700G vs Intel Core i5-13600HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 8 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9769 points
0.55% slightly better overall score
9716 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11596 points
11822 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9145 points
0.63% slightly better multitasking score
9088 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8951 points
8975 points
0.27% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

245.43 points
124% significantly higher Blender score
109.13 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
14
75% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.2 GHz
61% significantly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
4.8 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
11.5 MiB
43% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

95th of 1,089
96th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series
13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 8700G vs Core i5-13600HX specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 8700G performs better than the Core i5-13600HX. Despite this, the Core i5-13600HX has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13600HX has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 8700G has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8700G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13600HX. Also, the Ryzen 7 8700G has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13600HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 8700G. The Core i5-13600HX 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 8700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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