AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i5-8500T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 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

4862 points

55% significantly better overall score

3124 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6603 points

30% slightly better gaming score

5063 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4311 points

70% significantly better multitasking score

2528 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4176 points

71% significantly better heavy workload score

2428 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.70 points

105% significantly higher Blender score

56.83 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5738 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3954 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points

42% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1137 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5695 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4152 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1590 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1193 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

57% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

35 W

28% slightly lower TDP

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

77% significantly more L3 cache

9 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

358th of 1,089

521st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

8th Generation Core i5

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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Core i5-8500T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600H is faster than the Core i5-8500T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8500T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 5 5600H has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8500T. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8500T outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600H thanks to a slightly 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 5600H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500T. The Ryzen 5 5600H 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 5600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.