Core i5-8500 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X specs and performance
In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8500 beats the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X in all gaming tests too.
With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-8500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8500. Despite this, the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8500 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8500. The Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X also has significantly more L3 cache.
The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.
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