AMD Ryzen 5 3500 vs Intel Core i5-8500T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 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

29% slightly better overall score

3124 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6490 points

28% slightly better gaming score

5063 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

2528 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3162 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

2428 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.14 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

56.83 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5320 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

3954 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1456 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1137 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5422 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4152 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1517 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1193 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

71% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

35 W

85% 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

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

77% significantly more L3 cache

9 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

430th of 1,089

521st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500 vs Core i5-8500T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3500 performs better than the Core i5-8500T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8500T in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8500T. The Core i5-8500T 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8500T. The Ryzen 5 3500 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.