Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 109.95
$ 74.99
$ 34.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

862 points
5930 points
587% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1899 points
7967 points
319% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

611 points
5266 points
761% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

587 points
5101 points
768% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

8.12 points
141.88 points
1647% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

692 points
7589 points
996% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

403 points
1833 points
354% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

638 points
7653 points
1099% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

392 points
1872 points
377% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
6
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

2
12
499% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.17 GHz
3.6 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
3 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

987th of 1,089
256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Core 2 Duo E8500 vs Ryzen 5 5500 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500 is faster than the Core 2 Duo E8500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Duo E8500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core 2 Duo E8500 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Duo E8500. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 Core 2 Duo E8500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core 2 Duo E8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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