Intel Core i7-8650U vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U

Compare Intel 8th 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

2006 points
2650 points
32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3386 points
4215 points
24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1610 points
2190 points
36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1539 points
2104 points
36% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.01 points
47.87 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2710 points
0.22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2704 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

895 points
923 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz
2.1 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

8 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

715th of 1,089
602nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-8650U vs Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U is faster than the Core i7-8650U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8650U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8650U. Despite this, the Core i7-8650U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 3500U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8650U. Despite this, the Core i7-8650U 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 i7-8650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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