Intel Core i5-11600KF vs AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

Core i5-11600KF vs Ryzen 5 8600G benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11600KF beats the Ryzen 5 8600G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8600G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-11600KF has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11600KF. Also, the Ryzen 5 8600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8600G outputs less heat than Core i5-11600KF thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 Ryzen 5 8600G has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600KF. The Ryzen 5 8600G 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 i5-11600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.