AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i5-6400

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 1458.00
$ 99.99
$ 1358.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points
10% slightly better overall score
2127 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points
3959 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points
19% slightly better multitasking score
1617 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points
19% slightly better heavy workload score
1551 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points
39.92 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points
2948 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points
1079 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points
3046 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points
1116 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.7 GHz
28% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed
3.3 GHz

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
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
699th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR4-1866

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 i5-6400 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3500U is faster than the Core i5-6400. Despite this, the Core i5-6400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-6400 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 i5-6400. Despite this, the Core i5-6400 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.

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