AMD Ryzen 5 8500G vs Intel Core Ultra 7 165H

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 1) 16 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

5521 points

6976 points

26% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8044 points

9640 points

19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4773 points

6199 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4617 points

6011 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.49 points

193.42 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

83% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.55 GHz

153% significantly higher clock speed

1.4 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

18 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

291st of 1,089

196th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series

Core Ultra (Series 1)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January

2023 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5-7467

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 8500G vs Core Ultra 7 165H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 7 165H is faster than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 7 165H has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8500G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 165H. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 7 165H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 8500G. The Core Ultra 7 165H 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 8500G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.