Intel Core i5-8500T vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

3124 points

3137 points

0.42% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5063 points

11% slightly better gaming score

4530 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2528 points

2722 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2428 points

2633 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.83 points

86.82 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4152 points

5816 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1193 points

1691 points

41% 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

2.1 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4.5 GHz

28% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

15 W

133% significantly 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

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

521st of 1,089

519th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

2023 January

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 i5-8500T vs Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U beats the Core i5-8500T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8500T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8500T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U outputs less heat than Core i5-8500T thanks to a 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 5 PRO 7530U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8500T. The Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U 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 i5-8500T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.