Intel Core i5-10600KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Price

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$ 169.99

$ 155.73

$ 14.26 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5658 points

2% slightly better overall score

5521 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7822 points

8044 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4969 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

4773 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4811 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

4617 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5399 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5215 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.51 points

159.49 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6783 points

9444 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1685 points

2354 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.1 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

3.55 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

6 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

280th of 1,089

291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-10600KF vs Ryzen 5 8500G specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-10600KF performs better than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8500G outputs less heat than Core i5-10600KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 8500G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10600KF. The Ryzen 5 8500G also has slightly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Core i5-10600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.