AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i3-8130U

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i3-8130U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3500U performs better than the Core i3-8130U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8130U 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 i3-8130U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8130U. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-8130U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 3500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-8130U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.