Ryzen 5 8500G vs Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H comparison
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H performs better than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. Also, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 8500G thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8500G has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.
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