Intel Core Ultra 7 155H vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Compare Intel 16 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1499.99
$ 155.73
$ 1344.26 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7084 points
28% slightly better overall score
5521 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9220 points
14% slightly better gaming score
8044 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6469 points
35% slightly better multitasking score
4773 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6362 points
37% slightly better heavy workload score
4617 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6426 points
23% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
5215 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.93 points
0.28% slightly higher Blender score
159.49 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
166% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

22
83% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.4 GHz
3.55 GHz
153% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
5 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

18 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

186th of 1,089
291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core Ultra (Series 1)
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 November
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-7467
DDR5

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core Ultra 7 155H vs Ryzen 5 8500G comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 155H is faster 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 Ultra 7 155H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 155H has 16 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 significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 155H. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 7 155H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G. The Core Ultra 7 155H also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ultra 7 155H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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