Intel Core i5-8500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile 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

4208 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6040 points

6127 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3002 points

3638 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2880 points

3518 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

83.18 points

94.21 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4868 points

5599 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1396 points

1594 points

14% 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

30% slightly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

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

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

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

420th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2021 March

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 5650U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8500 performs better than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U 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 PRO 5650U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.