AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Intel Core i5-8265U

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 269.00
$ 1655.93 significantly less expensive
$ 1924.93

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9859 points
353% significantly better overall score
2174 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points
161% significantly better gaming score
3802 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points
476% significantly better multitasking score
1707 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points
504% significantly better heavy workload score
1627 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points
768% significantly higher Blender score
36.15 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

20634 points
489% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
3500 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11764 points
417% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2272 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2141 points
197% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
720 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
200% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
200% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
131% significantly higher clock speed
1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed
3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
15 W
599% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
966% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 1,089
688th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2018 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Core i5-8265U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900X beats the Core i5-8265U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8265U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8265U. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900X has 12 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-8265U. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8265U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8265U. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8265U outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900X 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 9 5900X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8265U. The Ryzen 9 5900X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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