Intel Core i5-8500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 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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AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Price

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$ 179.99

$ 74.99

$ 105.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3718 points

5931 points

59% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6040 points

7969 points

31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3002 points

5267 points

75% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2880 points

5102 points

77% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3756 points

5451 points

45% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

83.18 points

141.88 points

70% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4908 points

7589 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1369 points

1833 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4868 points

7653 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1396 points

1872 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

3.6 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.2 GHz

2% 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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB

16 MiB

77% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

460th of 1,089

256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8500 vs Ryzen 5 5500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500 beats the Core i5-8500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8500 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 5500 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8500. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500 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 5500 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8500. The Ryzen 5 5500 also has significantly 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. For instance, the Core i5-8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.