Intel Core i7-4850HQ vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 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

2386 points

2650 points

11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4177 points

4215 points

0.91% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

2190 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1778 points

2104 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

51.15 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

47.87 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3194 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2704 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

928 points

0.54% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

923 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3202 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2612 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

999 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

903 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

3.7 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

47 W

15 W

213% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

645th of 1,089

602nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-4850HQ vs Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4850HQ beats the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4850HQ has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U outputs less heat than Core i7-4850HQ thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-4850HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.