AMD Ryzen 5 3500 vs Intel Core i3-1215U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i3 6 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

4057 points

23% slightly better overall score

3288 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6490 points

13% slightly better gaming score

5718 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

2595 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3162 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

2480 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.14 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

57.10 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5320 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4916 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1456 points

1875 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5422 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4826 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1517 points

1815 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

200% significantly higher clock speed

1.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.4 GHz

7% 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

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

4.5 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

60% significantly more L3 cache

10 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

430th of 1,089

501st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

12th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500 vs Core i3-1215U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500 beats the Core i3-1215U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-1215U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-1215U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-1215U. The Core i3-1215U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i3-1215U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3500. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-1215U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.