Intel Core i5-8600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 7533HS

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 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

4307 points

4% slightly better overall score

4135 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6905 points

20% slightly better gaming score

5749 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3493 points

3665 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3351 points

3562 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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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

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

4.4 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

54 W

75% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

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

408th of 1,089

424th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8600K vs Ryzen 5 7533HS comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8600K performs better than the Ryzen 5 7533HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7533HS in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 7533HS has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7533HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7533HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7533HS outputs less heat than Core i5-8600K 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 7533HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8600K. The Ryzen 5 7533HS 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 i5-8600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.