Intel Core i7-7820X vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

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Price

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$ 349.99
$ 155.73
$ 194.26 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5865 points
4% slightly better overall score
5608 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7275 points
8105 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5393 points
10% slightly better multitasking score
4868 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5258 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score
4711 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5958 points
14% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
5215 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

165.28 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
159.49 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7802 points
9444 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1416 points
2354 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
1% slightly higher clock speed
3.55 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
5 GHz
16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W
65 W
115% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

11 MiB
16 MiB
45% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

268th of 1,096
293rd of 1,096

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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