AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i3-6100T

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i3-6100T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500U beats the Core i3-6100T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6100T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 3500U has significantly more cores than the Core i3-6100T. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-6100T. It also has more threads than the Core i3-6100T. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-6100T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-6100T 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.