Intel Core i5-8500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G

Price

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$ 179.99

$ 319.01 significantly less expensive

$ 499.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3718 points

5333 points

43% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6040 points

7406 points

22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3002 points

4663 points

55% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2880 points

4507 points

56% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3756 points

6809 points

81% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

83.18 points

127.97 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4908 points

6221 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1369 points

1526 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4868 points

6107 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1396 points

1564 points

12% 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

3.70 GHz

23% 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

12% slightly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

460th of 1,089

308th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2020 July

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 PRO 4650G comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G is faster than the Core i5-8500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8500. Also, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500. Despite this, the Core i5-8500 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G.

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. For instance, the Core i5-8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.