AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i5-8350U

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i5-8350U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600G beats the Core i5-8350U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8350U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-8350U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8350U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8350U. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8350U 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8350U. The Ryzen 5 5600G 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 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.