AMD Ryzen 7 5800U vs Intel Core i5-8600K

Ryzen 7 5800U vs Core i5-8600K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5800U performs better than the Core i5-8600K. Despite this, the Core i5-8600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5800U has slightly more cores than the Core i5-8600K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800U has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-8600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-8600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5800U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800U 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8600K. The Ryzen 7 5800U 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 5800U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.