AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Core i5-8500

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 129.99
$ 50.00 significantly less expensive
$ 179.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points
21% slightly better overall score
3718 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points
3% slightly better gaming score
6040 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points
32% slightly better multitasking score
3002 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points
33% slightly better heavy workload score
2880 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4889 points
30% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
3756 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points
67% significantly higher Blender score
83.18 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4908 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1369 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4868 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1396 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
100% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
9% slightly higher turbo speed
4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
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

32 MiB
255% significantly more L3 cache
9 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

389th of 1,089
460th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Core i5-8500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600XT beats the Core i5-8500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 3600XT has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8500. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8500 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600XT thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500. The Ryzen 5 3600XT also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 3600XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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