Intel Core i5-8600K vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 120.99
$ 278.62 significantly less expensive
$ 399.61

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points
7335 points
70% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6905 points
8938 points
29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3493 points
6797 points
94% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3351 points
6646 points
98% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4121 points
7297 points
77% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

89.16 points
209.61 points
135% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5426 points
10897 points
100% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1483 points
2052 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5747 points
11047 points
92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1581 points
2117 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
4.5 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
10% slightly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
4 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB
96 MiB
966% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

408th of 1,089
172nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2022 April

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 7 5800X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is faster than the Core i5-8600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8600K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has slightly more cores than the Core i5-8600K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-8600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-8600K CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU because of its slightly 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 5800X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8600K. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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.

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