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Intel Core i7-8700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 3700C

Last updated: 2026-07-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-8700

Rank 2 - 79 %

AMD Ryzen 7 3700C

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-8700

Rank 2 - 51 %

AMD Ryzen 7 3700C

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.60 GHz

1,146 pts

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

1,194 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.60 GHz

1,459

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

1,020

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.30 GHz

6,027

4C / 8T · 2.70 GHz

3,115

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.60 GHz

481 cb

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

451 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.60 GHz

1,172

4C / 8T · 4.00 GHz

762

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 4.30 GHz

5,891

4C / 8T · 2.70 GHz

2,684

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Intel UHD Graphics 630

442

AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 (Raven Ridge)

1,792

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700	AMD Ryzen 7 3700C
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	AMD Ryzen 7 (79)
CPU group	Intel Core i 8000 (20)	AMD Ryzen 3000C (3)
Architecture	Coffee Lake S	Picasso (Zen+)
Technology	14 nm	12 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 1151-2	FP5
Predecessor	Intel Core i7-7700
Successor	Intel Core i7-9700	AMD Ryzen 7 5825C

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700	AMD Ryzen 7 3700C
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 12	4 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	6x	4x
Frequency:	3.20 GHz	2.30 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	4.60 GHz	4.00 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	4.30 GHz	2.70 GHz
L2-Cache		2.00 MB
L3-Cache	12.00 MB	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700	AMD Ryzen 7 3700C
GPU name	Intel UHD Graphics 630	AMD Radeon RX Vega 10 (Raven Ridge)
GPU frequency	0.35 - 1.15 GHz	1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	24 / 192	10 / 640
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	3	3
Max. GPU Memory	64 GB	2 GB
Technology	14 nm	14 nm
Release date	Q4/2017	Q1/2018

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700	AMD Ryzen 7 3700C
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700	AMD Ryzen 7 3700C
Memory	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	3.0 x 16	3.0 x 20
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s	19.7 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700	AMD Ryzen 7 3700C
TDP	65 W	15 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		25 W
TDP down		12 W
T. junction max.	100 °C	105 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-8700	AMD Ryzen 7 3700C
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
Release date	Q4/2017	Q3/2020
Release price	340 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-8700 is 4.1 stars (138 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 7 3700C has received 0 stars (0 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-8700
6C / 12T · 3.20 - 4.60 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 7 3700C
4C / 8T · 2.30 - 4.00 GHz

★★★★★