AMD Ryzen 7 4800HS vs Intel Core i5-8600K

Ryzen 7 4800HS vs Core i5-8600K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 4800HS is faster than the Core i5-8600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8600K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 4800HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-8600K that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 4800HS. Also, the Core i5-8600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 4800HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 4800HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8600K. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 4800HS.

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 4800HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.