AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i5-1235U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i5 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1458.00
$ 687.07
$ 770.93 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points
3900 points
65% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points
5787 points
51% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points
3361 points
74% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points
3239 points
75% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points
73.73 points
98% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points
5801 points
136% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points
1884 points
118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points
5632 points
124% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points
1824 points
108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
10
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
61% significantly higher clock speed
1.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.4 GHz
18% 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

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
800 KiB
108% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
2.5 MiB
25% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
12 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089
442nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i5-1235U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1235U beats the Ryzen 5 3500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-1235U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Indeed, the Core i5-1235U has 10 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3500U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1235U. Despite this, the Core i5-1235U 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 Core i5-1235U has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3500U. The Core i5-1235U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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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