AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core 2 Duo E8400

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core 2 Duo E8400 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3500U performs better than the Core 2 Duo E8400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Duo E8400 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core 2 Duo E8400 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8400. Our comparison shows that the Core 2 Duo E8400 has a much higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core 2 Duo E8400 CPU because of its 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 Core 2 Duo E8400 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3500U

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.