AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 79.99
$ 50.01 significantly less expensive
$ 130.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points
4161 points
24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points
6597 points
27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points
3390 points
22% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points
3252 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3720 points
3860 points
3% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points
85.91 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points
5905 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points
1536 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points
5889 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points
1572 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
33% slightly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
3.6 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.1 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089
423rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
-

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Ryzen 5 3500X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500X beats the Ryzen 5 1500X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1500X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 3500X has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 1500X that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Also, the Ryzen 5 3500X 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 3500X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 1500X. The Ryzen 5 3500X 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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