amd ryzen 5 pro 4650g vs intel core i7 8700k

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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G (Desktop) 6-cores against Intel Core i7 8700K (Desktop) 6-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved

Key Differences

What are the key differences between AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G and Intel Core i7 8700K
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G
  • Newer released 3 years later
  • Consumes up to 32% less energy than the Intel Core i7 8700K – 65 vs 95 Watt
  • Around 9.6 GB/s (19%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • Newer PCI Express version – 4
  • More modern manufacturing process – 7 versus 14
Advantages of Intel Core i7 8700K
  • Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
  • 11% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.7 GHz vs 4.2 GHz)

Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs in benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
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Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)

Specifications

Full technical specification of ryzen 5 pro 4650g and core i7 8700k

General

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G Intel Core i7 8700K
Vendor AMD Intel
Released July 21 2020 January 5 2017
Type Desktop Desktop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Renoir Coffee Lake-S
Socket AM4 FCLGA1151
Integrated GPU AMD Radeon Vega 7 Intel UHD Graphics 630

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G Intel Core i7 8700K
Cores 6 6
Threads 12 12
Base Frequency 3.7 GHz 3.7 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency 4.2 GHz 4.7 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 256K (per core)
L3 Cache 8 MB (shared) 12288 KB
Unlocked Multiplier Yes Yes

Power

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G Intel Core i7 8700K
Fabrication process 7 nm 14 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 W 95 W
Max. temperature °C 100°C

Memory support

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G Intel Core i7 8700K
Memory types DDR4-3200 DDR3, DDR4
Memory Size 128 GB 128 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 51.196 GB/s 41.6 GB/s
ECC Support No No

iGPU

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G Intel Core i7 8700K
Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon Vega 7 Intel UHD Graphics 630
GPU Base Clock 300 MHz 350 MHz
GPU Boost Clock MHz 1.2 MHz
Shading Units 448 192
TMUs 28 24
ROPs 7 3
TGP 0 W 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
1.108 TFLOPS
0.38 TFLOPS

Misc

AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G Intel Core i7 8700K
Official site AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G official page Intel Core i7 8700K official page
PCI Express Version 4 3
PCI Express Lanes 16

Comments

So which CPU will you choose: Intel Core i7 8700K or AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G?