AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i3-8350K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i3 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 1458.00
$ 135.00
$ 1323.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points
2843 points
20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points
5240 points
37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points
2170 points
12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points
2084 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points
65.84 points
76% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points
4010 points
63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points
1389 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points
4384 points
75% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points
1517 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
4 GHz
90% significantly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
506% significantly lower TDP
91 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
8 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089
563rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
8th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i3-8350K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-8350K performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i3-8350K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i3-8350K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 i3-8350K. Despite this, the Core i3-8350K has significantly more L3 cache compared to 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.

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