Intel Core i3-7350K vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U

Core i3-7350K vs Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U beats the Core i3-7350K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7350K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has significantly more cores than the Core i3-7350K. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-7350K. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7350K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-7350K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. The Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U outputs less heat than Core i3-7350K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has more L2 cache than the Core i3-7350K. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i3-7350K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.