AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i5-8500

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

4180 points
12% slightly better overall score
3718 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points
6040 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points
24% slightly better multitasking score
3002 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points
25% slightly better heavy workload score
2880 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
83.18 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5751 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4908 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1605 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1369 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4868 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1396 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
100% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
3 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
333% significantly lower TDP
65 W

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

422nd of 1,089
460th 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

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Core i5-8500 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600U performs better than the Core i5-8500. Despite this, the Core i5-8500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 5600U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8500 CPU because of its 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 5600U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500. The Ryzen 5 5600U 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 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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