Intel Core i5-8500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS

Core i5-8500 vs Ryzen 7 7735HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7735HS 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 7735HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-8500 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7735HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8500. Also, the Ryzen 7 7735HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7735HS 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7735HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500. The Ryzen 7 7735HS 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.