AMD Ryzen 5 3500 vs Intel Core i7-5700HQ

Ryzen 5 3500 vs Core i7-5700HQ specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3500 is faster than the Core i7-5700HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5700HQ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-5700HQ has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-5700HQ has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5700HQ. The Core i7-5700HQ outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3500 thanks to a slightly 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 Ryzen 5 3500 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-5700HQ. The Ryzen 5 3500 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.