AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i9-8950HK

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i9 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

4357 points

76% significantly better overall score

2473 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

72% significantly better gaming score

3684 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

76% significantly better multitasking score

2115 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

75% significantly better heavy workload score

2044 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

85.61 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points

0.15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4580 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1270 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points

5219 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

1422 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

2.9 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.8 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

200% significantly lower TDP

45 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

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089

634th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

8th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2018 May

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 i9-8950HK benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500U performs better than the Core i9-8950HK. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-8950HK in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i9-8950HK has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-8950HK 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 i9-8950HK. Despite this, the Core i9-8950HK has significantly 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.