AMD Ryzen 5 8500G vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs AMD 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 155.73
$ 174.26 significantly less expensive
$ 329.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5521 points
6994 points
26% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8044 points
8202 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4773 points
6575 points
37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4617 points
6440 points
39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5215 points
6750 points
29% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.49 points
187.18 points
17% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9444 points
10106 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2354 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1922 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.55 GHz
3.58 GHz
0.70% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed
4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
96 MiB
499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

291st of 1,089
194th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR4

Ryzen 5 8500G vs Ryzen 7 5700X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D beats the Ryzen 5 8500G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8500G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 8500G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G.

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.

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