Intel Core i5-11600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 140.00
$ 15.73 slightly less expensive
$ 155.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5920 points
4% slightly better overall score
5649 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8284 points
2% slightly better gaming score
8095 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5201 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
4923 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5041 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score
4766 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

158.65 points
159.49 points
0.53% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7951 points
9444 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2104 points
2354 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
3.55 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed

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

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

265th of 1,100
290th of 1,100

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

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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