AMD Ryzen 5 8500G vs AMD Ryzen AI 5 340

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series 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

1% slightly better overall score

5440 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8044 points

4% slightly better gaming score

7698 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4773 points

4785 points

0.25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4617 points

4637 points

0.43% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.49 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

152.57 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9444 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

9225 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2354 points

2369 points

0.64% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

77% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.8 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

299th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series

Ryzen AI 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Ryzen 5 8500G vs Ryzen AI 5 340 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8500G is faster than the Ryzen AI 5 340. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen AI 5 340 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores 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 AI 5 340. Also, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen AI 5 340 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 data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches 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.