AMD Ryzen 5 3500 vs Intel Core i9-11950H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 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

6449 points

58% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6490 points

8487 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

5818 points

76% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3162 points

5677 points

79% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.14 points

153.40 points

80% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% 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

5 GHz

21% 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

768 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

24 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

430th of 1,089

223rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

11th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500 vs Core i9-11950H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11950H performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-11950H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11950H. The Core i9-11950H 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.

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.