AMD Ryzen 7 5800H vs Intel Core i5-8350U

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 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

5963 points
206% significantly better overall score
1943 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7413 points
126% significantly better gaming score
3266 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5498 points
251% significantly better multitasking score
1565 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5377 points
259% significantly better heavy workload score
1497 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

161.72 points
287% significantly higher Blender score
41.73 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
100% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
88% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
22% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
15 W
200% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

251st of 1,089
728th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 5800H vs Core i5-8350U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800H beats the Core i5-8350U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8350U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800H has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-8350U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8350U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8350U. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8350U outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800H 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 5800H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8350U. The Ryzen 7 5800H 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 5800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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