AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i5-10210U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-10210U

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 181.00 slightly less expensive

$ 1639.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

6% slightly better overall score

2205 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

3819 points

0.29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

1744 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

1666 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

36.33 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

2911 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

948 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

3069 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

1196 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

Identical

15 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089

684th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2019 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i5-10210U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3500U is faster than the Core i5-10210U. Despite this, the Core i5-10210U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10210U. Despite this, the Core i5-10210U 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10210U. Despite this, the Core i5-10210U 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.