AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core 7 150U

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core 7 150U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3500U performs better than the Core 7 150U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 7 150U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core 7 150U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3500U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 7 150U. In terms of cache, the Core 7 150U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. The Core 7 150U also has significantly 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.