AMD Ryzen 5 8500G vs Intel Core i7-1365U

Ryzen 5 8500G vs Core i7-1365U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 8500G beats the Core i7-1365U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1365U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1365U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8500G has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1365U. Despite this, the Core i7-1365U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-1365U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-1365U.

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 8500G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.