Intel Core i3-8109U vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i3 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile 6 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

1040 points
4208 points
304% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1956 points
6127 points
213% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

794 points
3638 points
358% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

766 points
3518 points
359% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.82 points
94.21 points
279% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

2004 points
7140 points
256% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2453 points
5599 points
128% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1187 points
1594 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
6
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed
2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4.2 GHz
16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

28 W
15 W
86% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB
384 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB
3 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
16 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

938th of 1,089
420th of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3
Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i3-8109U vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U beats the Core i3-8109U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8109U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has significantly more cores than the Core i3-8109U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-8109U. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8109U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-8109U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U outputs less heat than Core i3-8109U 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 5 PRO 5650U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-8109U. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U 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 Core i3-8109U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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