AMD Ryzen 5 3500 vs Intel Core i9-9820X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 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

6987 points

72% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6490 points

7678 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

6735 points

104% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3162 points

6649 points

110% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.14 points

204.52 points

140% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

233% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

Identical

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

153% significantly lower TDP

165 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

640 KiB

66% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

220% significantly more L3 cache

5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

430th of 1,089

195th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November

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 i9-9820X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9820X beats the Ryzen 5 3500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9820X has significantly more cores with 10 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 i9-9820X. A Ryzen 5 3500 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9820X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.