AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-8600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 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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Intel Core i5-8600K

Price

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$ 844.78

$ 120.99

$ 723.79 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points

1% slightly better overall score

4307 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

6905 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

3493 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

3351 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3688 points

4121 points

11% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

89.16 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points

5426 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points

1483 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points

5747 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

1581 points

21% 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

2.1 GHz

3.6 GHz

71% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.3 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

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

8 MiB

9 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089

408th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-8600K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500U performs better than the Core i5-8600K. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8600K CPU because of its 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 5500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8600K. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U.

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 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.