Intel Core i5-8500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3718 points

4404 points

18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6040 points

6525 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3002 points

3759 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2880 points

3630 points

26% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

83.18 points

86.99 points

4% slightly higher Blender 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

30% slightly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.3 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

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

400th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8500 vs Ryzen 5 7430U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7430U performs better than the Core i5-8500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 7430U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7430U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7430U outputs less heat than Core i5-8500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7430U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500. The Ryzen 5 7430U 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. For instance, the Core i5-8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.