AMD Ryzen 5 3450U vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 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

2626 points
3900 points
48% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4310 points
5787 points
34% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2126 points
3361 points
58% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2033 points
3239 points
59% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.48 points
73.73 points
86% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

3195 points
9208 points
188% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
10
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
61% significantly higher clock speed
1.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4.4 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed

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

384 KiB
800 KiB
108% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
2.5 MiB
25% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
12 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

604th of 1,089
442nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3450U vs Core i5-1235U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-1235U performs better than the Ryzen 5 3450U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3450U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3450U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3450U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3450U has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1235U. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U 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 Core i5-1235U has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3450U. The Core i5-1235U also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3450U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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