Intel Core i9-11950H vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Core i9-11950H vs Ryzen 5 8500G comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-11950H beats the Ryzen 5 8500G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 8500G in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-11950H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8500G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11950H. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Core i9-11950H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 8500G CPU because of its 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 i9-11950H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.