AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i5-8500T

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Core i5-8500T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5700U performs better than the Core i5-8500T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8500T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5700U has slightly more cores than the Core i5-8500T. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700U has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-8500T. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8500T. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8500T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-8500T CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 5700U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500T. Despite this, the Core i5-8500T has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U.

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 7 5700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.