AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i5-8500T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points

43% significantly better overall score

3124 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points

19% slightly better gaming score

5063 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

58% significantly better multitasking score

2528 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points

59% significantly better heavy workload score

2428 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points

76% significantly higher Blender score

56.83 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3954 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points

1137 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4152 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points

1193 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

77% significantly more L3 cache

9 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089

521st 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

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i5-8500T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600 beats the Core i5-8500T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8500T in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8500T. Also, the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8500T outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8500T. The Ryzen 5 1600 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 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.