AMD Ryzen 7 5800H vs Intel Core i5-3230M

Ryzen 7 5800H vs Core i5-3230M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800H beats the Core i5-3230M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3230M in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5800H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-3230M. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800H has 8 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-3230M. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3230M. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3230M. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3230M outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800H thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 5800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.