AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i5-8350U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 99.99
$ 889.01 significantly less expensive
$ 989.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points
124% significantly better overall score
1943 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points
82% significantly better gaming score
3266 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points
145% significantly better multitasking score
1565 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points
148% significantly better heavy workload score
1497 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points
154% significantly higher Blender score
41.73 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
100% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
125% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

404th of 1,089
728th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April
2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Core i5-8350U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2600 is faster than the Core i5-8350U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8350U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 2600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-8350U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8350U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8350U. Also, the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8350U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2600 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 2600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8350U. The Ryzen 5 2600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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