AMD Ryzen 5 3500 vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 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

4057 points

9% slightly better overall score

3722 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6490 points

16% slightly better gaming score

5577 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

3201 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3162 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

3089 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.14 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

75.98 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

111% significantly higher clock speed

1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.7 GHz

14% 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

800 KiB

108% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

430th of 1,089

459th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

12th Generation Core i7

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 i7-1255U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-1255U beats the Ryzen 5 3500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-1255U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3500. Indeed, the Core i7-1255U has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3500. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1255U. The Core i7-1255U 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 i7-1255U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3500. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-1255U.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.