Intel Core i9-7940X vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Compare Intel Core X-series 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Price

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$ 300.00

$ 155.73

$ 144.27 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5222 points

5521 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6170 points

8044 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4938 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

4773 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4896 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

4617 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

261.54 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

159.49 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10511 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

9444 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1444 points

2354 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.55 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

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

165 W

65 W

153% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

56% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

324th of 1,089

291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-7940X vs Ryzen 5 8500G comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-7940X performs better than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 8500G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-7940X. Also, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8500G outputs less heat than Core i9-7940X 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 i9-7940X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.