AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i3-1220P

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i3-1220P benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-1220P is faster than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i3-1220P has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3500U 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 i3-1220P. Despite this, the Core i3-1220P has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-1220P CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i3-1220P has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3500U. The Core i3-1220P 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.