Intel Core i7-5700HQ vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U

Compare Intel 5th 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

2748 points

3% slightly better overall score

2650 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4553 points

8% slightly better gaming score

4215 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2217 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

2190 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2125 points

1.00% slightly better heavy workload score

2104 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.31 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

47.87 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3230 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2704 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1113 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

923 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3227 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2612 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points

21% 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

2.7 GHz

28% 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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

579th of 1,089

602nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

5th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 May

2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-5700HQ vs Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5700HQ beats the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5700HQ has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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 i7-5700HQ thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-5700HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-5700HQ has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U.

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 i7-5700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.