AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i5-7200U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 7th Generation Core i5 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 1458.00
$ 498.00 significantly less expensive
$ 1956.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2357 points
89% significantly better overall score
1241 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3808 points
55% significantly better gaming score
2452 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1930 points
108% significantly better multitasking score
924 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1850 points
108% significantly better heavy workload score
887 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.23 points
66% significantly higher Blender score
22.30 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2457 points
86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1316 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

862 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
508 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz
2.5 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
19% slightly higher turbo speed
3.1 GHz

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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

650th of 1,089
889th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics
7th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 January
2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i5-7200U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500U beats the Core i5-7200U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7200U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3500U has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-7200U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7200U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-7200U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U 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 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.

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