Intel Core i5-8250U vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 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

$ 1527.00
$ 135.32
$ 1391.68 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1907 points
6267 points
228% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3207 points
8333 points
159% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1532 points
5604 points
265% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1465 points
5431 points
270% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

1696 points
5664 points
233% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.03 points
150.92 points
296% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1971 points
8330 points
322% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

771 points
1980 points
156% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.6 GHz
3.50 GHz
118% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
4.4 GHz
29% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
333% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
3 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
32 MiB
433% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

738th of 1,089
237th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-8250U vs Ryzen 5 5600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600 beats the Core i5-8250U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8250U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 5600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-8250U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8250U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8250U. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8250U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 5600 CPU because of its 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 5600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8250U. The Ryzen 5 5600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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