AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i5-8500

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Core i5-8500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8500 beats the Ryzen 5 1500X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1500X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-8500 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Indeed, the Core i5-8500 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than the Core i5-8500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8500. Despite this, the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1500X has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8500. The Ryzen 5 1500X 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 Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.