AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i5-8365U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 79.99
$ 1198.01 significantly less expensive
$ 1278.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points
73% significantly better overall score
1927 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points
56% significantly better gaming score
3320 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points
80% significantly better multitasking score
1537 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points
81% significantly better heavy workload score
1474 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points
56% significantly higher Blender score
41.28 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2419 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
638 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
118% significantly higher clock speed
1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.1 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089
731st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Core i5-8365U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1500X is faster than the Core i5-8365U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8365U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8365U. Despite this, the Core i5-8365U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8365U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1500X 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 Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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