AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs Intel Core i5-7300U

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Core i5-7300U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3500U is faster than the Core i5-7300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7300U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 3500U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-7300U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-7300U. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7300U. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-7300U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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.

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.