AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i5-4690K

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

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Intel Core i5-4690K

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 161.43

$ 1296.57 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

2483 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

4619 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1885 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1808 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

52.71 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

3635 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

1267 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

3649 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

1305 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3.5 GHz

66% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

486% significantly lower TDP

88 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089

632nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i5-4690K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4690K 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4690K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Also, the Core i5-4690K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-4690K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.