AMD Ryzen 7 4700U vs Intel Core i5-8500

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4283 points
15% slightly better overall score
3718 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6364 points
5% slightly better gaming score
6040 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3616 points
20% slightly better multitasking score
3002 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3464 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score
2880 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

86.75 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
83.18 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4973 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4908 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1368 points
1369 points
0.07% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4938 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4868 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1356 points
1396 points
2% 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

8
33% slightly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz
3 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
333% significantly lower TDP
65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
33% slightly 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

8 MiB
9 MiB
12% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

411th of 1,089
460th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 June
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 4700U vs Core i5-8500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 4700U beats the Core i5-8500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 4700U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-8500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8500. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 4700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 4700U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 4700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8500 CPU because of its 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 4700U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500. Despite this, the Core i5-8500 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 4700U.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 7 4700U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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