AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i5-11400H

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i5-11400H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11400H is faster than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-11400H has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3500U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11400H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. Also, the Core i5-11400H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11400H 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 Core i5-11400H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. The Core i5-11400H also has significantly more 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.