Intel Core i5-11400 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Compare Intel 11th 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?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 129.99

$ 25.74 slightly less expensive

$ 155.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5682 points

2% slightly better overall score

5521 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8370 points

4% slightly better gaming score

8044 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4847 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

4773 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4675 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

4617 points

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Core i5-11400 and the Ryzen 5 8500G? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5721 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5215 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

144.07 points

159.49 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7262 points

9444 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1960 points

2354 points

20% 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

3.6 GHz

1% slightly higher clock speed

3.55 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

6 MiB

100% 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

276th of 1,089

291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-11400 vs Ryzen 5 8500G specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11400 beats the Ryzen 5 8500G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 8500G in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 8500G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-11400. The Ryzen 5 8500G also has slightly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-11400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.