AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i3-1125G4

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i3 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

3338 points

18% slightly better overall score

2810 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points

9% slightly better gaming score

4729 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

2253 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points

23% slightly better heavy workload score

2154 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

45.54 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points

4219 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points

1435 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points

4001 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points

1417 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

Identical

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

28 W

132% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089

568th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

11th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Core i3-1125G4 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 1500X performs better than the Core i3-1125G4. Despite this, the Core i3-1125G4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. The Core i3-1125G4 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1500X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.