AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 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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AMD Ryzen 5 3500U

Price

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$ 79.99

$ 1378.01 significantly less expensive

$ 1458.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2292 points

2357 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4208 points

10% slightly better gaming score

3808 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1753 points

1930 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1683 points

1850 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.96 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

37.23 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2796 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2457 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

862 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2849 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2505 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

875 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.7 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

Identical

2 MiB

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

661st of 1,089

650th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

2019 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 3 1200 vs Ryzen 5 3500U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3500U performs better than the Ryzen 3 1200. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 1200 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 1200 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 3500U outputs less heat than Ryzen 3 1200 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 3 1200 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. For instance, the Ryzen 3 1200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.