Intel Core i5-8500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 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

6306 points

69% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6040 points

8479 points

40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3002 points

5619 points

87% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2880 points

5454 points

89% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

83.18 points

163.82 points

96% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4868 points

9274 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1396 points

2302 points

64% significantly 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

4.30 GHz

43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

5 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

54 W

20% slightly 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

6 MiB

300% 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

235th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8500 vs Ryzen 5 7640HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7640HS is faster than the Core i5-8500. Despite this, the Core i5-8500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 7640HS has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8500. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7640HS outputs less heat than Core i5-8500 thanks to a slightly 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 7640HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8500. The Ryzen 5 7640HS 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.