Intel Core i7-8750H vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

Compare Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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

3418 points
45% significantly better overall score
2357 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4937 points
29% slightly better gaming score
3808 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2961 points
53% significantly better multitasking score
1930 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2863 points
54% significantly better heavy workload score
1850 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

80.62 points
116% significantly higher Blender score
37.23 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4506 points
83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2457 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1262 points
46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
862 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4668 points
86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
2505 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1311 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
875 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.20 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
15 W
200% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
2 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB
125% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

493rd of 1,089
650th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
2019 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-8750H vs Ryzen 5 3500U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8750H is faster than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-8750H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Indeed, the Core i7-8750H has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3500U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8750H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Also, the Core i7-8750H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 3500U outputs less heat than Core i7-8750H 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 3500U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8750H. Despite this, the Core i7-8750H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 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 i7-8750H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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