10 specifications

Intel Core i7-11700K vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

On paper, the AMD Ryzen 7 8700G boosts higher. Specifications describe what each chip is designed to do; how much of that either one holds under continuous load is a separate question.

10 specifications · 2 with a higher side

Intel Core i7-11700K

Intel · Rocket Lake (11th gen) · Desktop

Full specifications

AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

AMD · Ryzen 8000G (Phoenix, Zen 4) · Desktop

Full specifications

Cores and clocks

Cores

Threads

Base clock

3.6 GHz

4.2 GHz

Boost clock

5.0 GHz

5.1 GHz

Cache and power

L3 cache

16 MB

TDP

125 W

65 W

Platform

Socket

FCLGA1200

AM5

Process

14 nm

4 nm

Integrated graphics

Intel UHD Graphics 750

AMD Radeon 780M (RDNA 3, 12 CU, 2.9 GHz)

Launched

2021-03-30

2024-01-31

A check marks the higher figure only on rows where higher is unambiguously better. Rows without one are not ties; they are specifications where “better” has no meaning.

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Every figure on this table is a design target. None of it is a measurement.

Nothing above describes how a processor behaves twenty minutes into a sustained workload, which is where two chips with nearly identical specifications routinely diverge. A boost clock is a ceiling the vendor permits, not a rate the chip sustains, and whether it holds depends on the cooling, the case, the power profile and the room. None of those appear on a specification sheet.

We deliberately do not reduce these figures to a single score. A composite invented from specifications would look authoritative and measure nothing, and choosing the weights would be choosing the winner.

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