AMD Ryzen 5 3500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 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

4357 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6490 points

2% slightly better gaming score

6337 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3294 points

3730 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3162 points

3577 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4797 points

30% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

3688 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.14 points

90.31 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5320 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4587 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1456 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1288 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5422 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4533 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1517 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1297 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

71% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

430th of 1,089

405th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500 vs Ryzen 5 5500U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500U performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500U. The Ryzen 5 5500U 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 data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. 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.