Intel Core i9-9820X vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Core i9-9820X vs Ryzen 5 8500G comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9820X beats the Ryzen 5 8500G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9820X has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8500G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9820X. Also, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8500G outputs less heat than Core i9-9820X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-9820X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.