Intel Core i7-2600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Core i7-2600K vs Ryzen 5 8500G comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8500G is faster than the Core i7-2600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 8500G has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-2600K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2600K. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2600K. Also, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8500G outputs less heat than Core i7-2600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-2600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.