Intel Core i5-8600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 120.99
$ 378.01 significantly less expensive
$ 499.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points
5333 points
23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6905 points
7406 points
7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3493 points
4663 points
33% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3351 points
4507 points
34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4121 points
6809 points
65% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

89.16 points
127.97 points
43% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5426 points
6221 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1483 points
1526 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5747 points
6107 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1581 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1564 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
3.70 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
12% slightly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

408th of 1,089
308th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-8600K vs Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G beats the Core i5-8600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8600K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8600K. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 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 PRO 4650G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8600K. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-8600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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