AMD Ryzen 7 1800X vs Intel Core i5-8600

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 235.99
$ 164.99
$ 71.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5542 points
36% slightly better overall score
4056 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6612 points
0.96% slightly better gaming score
6549 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5172 points
57% significantly better multitasking score
3280 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5056 points
60% significantly better heavy workload score
3148 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.60 points
66% significantly higher Blender score
85.30 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5675 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4766 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1118 points
1335 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5693 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5012 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1144 points
1461 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
166% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed
3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.3 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
77% significantly more L3 cache
9 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

289th of 1,089
431st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 1800X vs Core i5-8600 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 1800X performs better than the Core i5-8600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 1800X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-8600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 1800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8600. The Core i5-8600 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 1800X 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 7 1800X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8600. The Ryzen 7 1800X also has significantly more 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 7 1800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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