AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i5-6500

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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Intel Core i5-6500

Price

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$ 1458.00

$ 103.63

$ 1354.37 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points

2% slightly better overall score

2289 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points

4255 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

1743 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

1675 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points

44.07 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points

3159 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points

1147 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2505 points

3287 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

875 points

1202 points

37% slightly 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

3.2 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 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

Identical

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

663rd 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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i5-6500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3500U is faster than the Core i5-6500. Despite this, the Core i5-6500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-6500 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to 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 i5-6500 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 i5-6500. Despite this, the Core i5-6500 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.