AMD Ryzen 5 8600G vs Intel Core i5-14500T

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core CPU vs Intel Core i5 (14th gen) 14 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

7604 points
8117 points
6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10588 points
4% slightly better gaming score
10172 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6642 points
7544 points
13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6422 points
7468 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10810 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
9642 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2486 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2371 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
14
133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.35 GHz
155% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.8 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
11.5 MiB
91% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

160th of 1,089
146th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series
Core i5 (14th gen)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January
2024 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 8600G vs Core i5-14500T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8600G is faster than the Core i5-14500T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-14500T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-14500T has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 8600G that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8600G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8600G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-14500T. Also, the Ryzen 5 8600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i5-14500T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 8600G. The Core i5-14500T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 8600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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