Intel Core i3 14100 / i5 14500 vs. AMD Ryzen 5 8500G / 8600G In 500+ Benchmarks

Those wanting to see all 500+ individual benchmarks in full plus the per-test power metrics, power efficiency, and performance-per-dollar can see this OB result page for all of my collected raw data.

Over the span of all the benchmarks carried out over days on each processor, here is a look at that collected CPU power consumption data. The Ryzen 5 8500G had the lowest power draw overall with a 36 Watt average and a peak of 69 Watts compared to the Core i3 14100 at 48 Watts and a peak of 90 Watts. The Core i5 14500 on average had a 51 Watt power draw to the Ryzen 5 8600G average at 54 Watts, but during the demanding multi-threaded workloads is where the i5-14500 power consumption could shoot quite high with a recorded peak of 217 Watts while most of the time was around 150 Watts or less.

If taking the geometric mean of all 500+ raw benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 8600G was out in front with 8.6% faster performance than the Core i5 14500. The Ryzen 5 8500G meanwhile was about 14% faster than the Core i3 14100.

Across the web browser benchmarks in Firefox and Chrome is where the Intel Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs performed well.

But in demanding workloads like various chess benchmarks leveraging AVX-512 is where the AMD Phoenix APUs came out well ahead of Intel.

The Core i5 14500 with its 20 threads led to it having the advantage for the code compilation performance across multiple jobs.

Across many creator workloads tested is where there was tight competition between the Core i5 14500 and Ryzen 5 8600G.

But if leveraging the integrated graphics is most important to you, the RDNA3 integrated graphics found with the Ryzen 8000G series blow the competition out of the water.

Or in the various benchmarks able to effectively leverage AVX-512. The i5-14500 has more cores/threads, but the E cores don't help out too well in a number of these areas.

So for those considering between the likes of the Core i3 14100 / Core i5 14500 and AMD Ryzen 5 8500G / 8600G processors, hopefully you found this mass assortment of benchmark data helpful and in catering to many different possible use-cases with these lower-power processors being applicable for SOHO servers, edge type deployments, and other interesting uses beyond just a conventional desktop but even there with growing AI use, Linux developer setups, and more leading to very diverse computing needs. If after maximizing power efficiency, you may be interested in Ryzen 8000G benchmarks when at 35 Watt and 45 Watt cTDP benchmarks.