AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i7-8086K

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i7-8086K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600G beats the Core i7-8086K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8086K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600G. Also, the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-8086K CPU because of its 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 i7-8086K. The Ryzen 5 5600G also has slightly 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.