AMD Ryzen 5 8500G vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core CPU vs AMD 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
10% slightly better overall score
4985 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8044 points
23% slightly better gaming score
6530 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4773 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
4496 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4617 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score
4354 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.49 points
82% significantly higher Blender score
87.35 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.55 GHz
61% significantly higher clock speed
2.20 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

291st of 1,089
350th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
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Ryzen 5 8500G vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance

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

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 8500G has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The Ryzen 5 8500G also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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