AMD Ryzen 5 3500 vs Intel Core i7-8850H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 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

9% slightly better overall score

3693 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6490 points

20% slightly better gaming score

5381 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

3183 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3162 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

3075 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.14 points

0.87% slightly higher Blender score

84.41 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5320 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4703 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1456 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1291 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5422 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4710 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1517 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1344 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

38% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.3 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% 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

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

430th of 1,089

463rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

8th Generation Core i7

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 i7-8850H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3500 performs better than the Core i7-8850H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8850H in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-8850H has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8850H. Despite this, the Core i7-8850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8850H 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 Ryzen 5 3500 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8850H. The Ryzen 5 3500 also has slightly 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.