AMD Ryzen 5 8500G vs AMD Ryzen 5 8640HS

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

5521 points

6405 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8044 points

9018 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4773 points

5593 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4617 points

5403 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.49 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

153.60 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9444 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7982 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2354 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2119 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.55 GHz

1% slightly higher clock speed

3.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

28 W

132% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

Identical

6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

291st of 1,089

227th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 5 8500G vs Ryzen 5 8640HS benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 8500G performs better than the Ryzen 5 8640HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 8640HS in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 8640HS. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and 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.