AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i7-8850H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 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

6140 points
66% significantly better overall score
3693 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points
54% significantly better gaming score
5381 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points
71% significantly better multitasking score
3183 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points
71% significantly better heavy workload score
3075 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points
73% significantly higher Blender score
84.41 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10551 points
83% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
5742 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4703 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1291 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4710 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1344 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
45 W
44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089
463rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop
8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

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 i7-8850H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600G performs better than the Core i7-8850H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8850H in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8850H. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8850H 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 i7-8850H. 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.

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