AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i3-8130U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i3 2 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

$ 140.99
$ 498.01 significantly less expensive
$ 639.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points
404% significantly better overall score
1216 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points
251% significantly better gaming score
2360 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points
498% significantly better multitasking score
910 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points
505% significantly better heavy workload score
872 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points
719% significantly higher Blender score
17.90 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points
304% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1873 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points
91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
984 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points
303% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1902 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1019 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
200% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
77% significantly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
29% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 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

384 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache
128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache
0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089
897th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop
8th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2018 February

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 5600G vs Core i3-8130U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600G is faster than the Core i3-8130U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8130U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5600G has significantly more cores than the Core i3-8130U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-8130U. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8130U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-8130U. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-8130U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600G thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-8130U. The Ryzen 5 5600G 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 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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