AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i5-8500

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 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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Intel Core i5-8500

Price

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$ 224.25

$ 179.99

$ 44.26 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points

72% significantly better overall score

3718 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

44% significantly better gaming score

6040 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

88% significantly better multitasking score

3002 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points

90% significantly better heavy workload score

2880 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5675 points

51% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

3756 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

86% significantly higher Blender score

83.18 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4908 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1369 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4868 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1396 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

3.7 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

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

32 MiB

255% significantly more L3 cache

9 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

460th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Core i5-8500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600X beats the Core i5-8500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8500 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 5600X has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8500. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 5600X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500. The Ryzen 5 5600X 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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.