AMD Ryzen 5 8500G vs AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 6000 Series 8 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
7135 points
29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8044 points
9019 points
12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4773 points
6520 points
36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4617 points
6356 points
37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.49 points
172.91 points
8% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9444 points
9559 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2354 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1990 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
7% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 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
45 W
44% significantly lower TDP

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
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

291st of 1,089
183rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series
Ryzen PRO 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

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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