AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i5-12400F

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Price

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$ 1458.00
$ 179.99
$ 1278.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2367 points
7070 points
198% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3814 points
9795 points
156% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1940 points
6211 points
220% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1860 points
6010 points
223% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points
159.61 points
328% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points
8804 points
258% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points
2154 points
149% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points
9125 points
264% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points
2218 points
153% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% 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
2.5 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed

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
333% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
480 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
18 MiB
350% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

664th of 1,114
198th of 1,114

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

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